Re: [Bug #10724] ACPI: EC: GPE storm detected, disabling EC GPE

From: Alexey Starikovskiy
Date: Fri Jul 18 2008 - 16:38:01 EST


Hi Fabio,

There are no bad news in seeing the message, as I tried to say several
times in bug report already. We can't fix the hardware.
We only could detect hardware flaw, report it (the message), and try to
workaround it.
So the bad news would be that our workaround causes some unwanted behavior to
other features of notebook -- keyboard, special keys, battery & AC status reports, etc.
If no such problems were noticed -- there is no bug, and there is no problem.

Regards,
Alex.

Fabio Comolli wrote:
Hi Alex. No good news, I'm afraid.

Actually my previous report wasn't correct because with the patch I
mentioned the message appeared yesterday night during the hibernate
process, so I couldn't notice it.

The interesting thing is that it showed up the day after I booted my
laptop: usually it took a period between 1 and 13 minutes after boot
to trigger and in this case it took more than 2 hours of uptime with 2
suspend and 2 hibernate cycles.

With the patch you told me to apply and the previous reverted the
message triggered in 12 minutes.

Regards,
Fabio




On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Alexey Starikovskiy
<astarikovskiy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Fabio,
Please try http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=16862 instead.
Same bug entry, last patch.
Regards,
Alex.
Fabio Comolli wrote:
Hi.
I also have this problem with 2.6.26 and when it happens I can notice
that sometimes gnome-power-manager is slow to respond when I switch to
AC from battery and viceversa. Also, sometimes the g-p-m icon
disappears and I have to restart the process.

I tried two days ago the patch

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=16365&action=view

and everything seems to work ok since then. Before that, the message
showed up sometimes at boot time, sometimes minutes later, very
reliably.

This is with a two years old fairly standard HP laptop.

Regards,
Fabio


On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report
of recent regressions.

The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
from 2.6.25. Please verify if it still should be listed.


Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10724
Subject : ACPI: EC: GPE storm detected, disabling EC GPE
Submitter : Justin Mattock <justinmattock@xxxxxxxxx>
Date : 2008-05-16 6:17 (59 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121091875711824&w=4
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/18/168
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/25/195
Patch :
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=16364&action=view

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=16365&action=view


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"
in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/