Re: High latency on /sys/class/thermal

From: Tiago Simões Batista
Date: Sun Apr 12 2009 - 22:28:42 EST


acpidump output attached.

I found no latency on battery iterface, included is another poke at the
thermal zone for comparison.

This problem is still present, but at the moment, I shut down the
sensors-applet on the gnome panel, so that it no longer makes
gnome-panel stall.

$ time cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp
49000

real 0m13.476s
user 0m0.001s
sys 0m0.001s
$ time cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/*
0
29
0
0
cat: /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/device: Is a directory
582640000
65120000
18710000
SMP-SONY
04ZL
cat: /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/power: Is a directory
0
0
1
Full
cat: /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/subsystem: Is a directory
Li-ion
270
Battery
PHYSDEVPATH=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/device:0b/PNP0C09:00/ACPI0001:00/ACPI0002:00
PHYSDEVBUS=acpi
PHYSDEVDRIVER=sbs
POWER_SUPPLY_NAME=BAT0
POWER_SUPPLY_TYPE=Battery
POWER_SUPPLY_STATUS=Full
POWER_SUPPLY_PRESENT=1
POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY=Li-ion
POWER_SUPPLY_VOLTAGE_MIN_DESIGN=14800000
POWER_SUPPLY_VOLTAGE_NOW=15611000
POWER_SUPPLY_CURRENT_NOW=0
POWER_SUPPLY_CURRENT_AVG=0
POWER_SUPPLY_POWER_NOW=0
POWER_SUPPLY_POWER_AVG=0
POWER_SUPPLY_CAPACITY=29
POWER_SUPPLY_ENERGY_FULL_DESIGN=65120000
POWER_SUPPLY_ENERGY_FULL=582640000
POWER_SUPPLY_ENERGY_NOW=18710000
POWER_SUPPLY_TEMP=270
POWER_SUPPLY_MODEL_NAME=04ZL
POWER_SUPPLY_MANUFACTURER=SMP-SONY
14800000
15611000

real 0m0.110s
user 0m0.001s
sys 0m0.004s


On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:43:42 +0800
Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> this sounds like an EC problem to me. please attach the acpidump
> output. is there a long latency when you poke other ACPI devices, say
> battery?
>
> thanks,
> rui
>
> On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 00:03 +0800, Tiago Simões Batista wrote:
> > On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 23:16:11 +0100
> > Tiago Simões Batista <tiagosbatista@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry about the noise, by brain was stopped when I sent the last
> > > mail, please ignore the From address, it is wrong!
> > >
> > > On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:14:16 -0700
> > > Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > (cc linux-acpi)
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:56:12 +0100 "Tiago Sim__es Batista"
> > > > <tiagosbatista@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi all
> > > > >
> > > > > Yesterday, I recompiled my kernel (git + tuxonice)
> > > > > v2.6.30-rc1-1002-gac91f91, there were a couple of issues, the
> > > > > main one is ilustrated bellow.
> > > > >
> > > > > I am not familiar with the kernel code, but if you give me
> > > > > some pointers, I will be glad to investigate this further
> > > > >
> > > > > $time cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp
> > > > > 34000
> > > > >
> > > > > real 0m6.613s
> > > > > user 0m0.000s
> > > > > sys 0m0.001s
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Is this a regression? Was 2.6.29 OK?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > My last kernel was fine:
> > >
> > > $ time cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp
> > > 48000
> > >
> > > real 0m0.007s
> > > user 0m0.001s
> > > sys 0m0.007s
> > >
> > >
> > > I also forgot to add some information about my kernels...
> > >
> > > The good one is 2.6.29 + tuxonice as it was the day after the
> > > 2.6.29 kernel was released.
> > >
> > > The bad one is a pull from linus tree on april the 9th plus
> > > tuxonice on the same day
> > >
> > > from git (hope this helps):
> > > $ git describe v2.6.29-tiago2-ice
> > > v2.6.29-836-g00492ed
> > > $ git describe v2.6.30-rc1-tiago1-ice
> > > v2.6.30-rc1-1002-gac91f91
> > >
> > >
> > > If tuxonice is a suspect, I will be glad to remove it and
> > > recompile. If I have the time later this weekend, and nothing was
> > > found, I will try to bisect this.
> > >
> >
> > Here are some results from the bisect:
> > The metric I used to mark a revision as good/bad was
> > $ time for ((i =0; i < 100; i++)); do
> > cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp > /dev/null;
> > done
> >
> > The bad ones take forever, i never even finished one bad run. The
> > good ones take about half a second.
> >
> > When I checked out revisions v2.6.29-148-g33526a5 and
> > v2.6.29-159-g8a3f257, it took almost 2 secons to run the command,
> > so I think some of the latency my have been introduced around
> > these. Yet, I still marked them as good.
> >
> > The resut was:
> > 478c6a43fcbc6c11609f8cee7c7b57223907754f is first bad commit
> > witch is a merge. I am out of ideas...
> >
> > I forgot to ask, am I the only one experiencing this? I am using a
> > TravelMate 4000 with the intel graphics chip, can anyone reproduce
> > this? If no one can reproduce this, I can still test a vanilla
> > kernel to remove TOI from the equation!
> >
> > Tiago
> >
> >
> > Below is the bisect log:
> > $ git bisect log
> > git bisect start
> > # bad: [ac91f917d7ed7d1ebe14532ee137fcd759b4406d] Merge branch
> > 'all' into all-tuxonice git bisect bad
> > ac91f917d7ed7d1ebe14532ee137fcd759b4406d # good:
> > [178a426510a901d9335f39d3391ae5e8628a36d1] Merge branch 'tuxonice'
> > into all-tuxonice git bisect good
> > 178a426510a901d9335f39d3391ae5e8628a36d1 # good:
> > [fdf9c9979a355916433262ea5e5e64bed5def86e] V4L/DVB (10465):
> > dsbr100: Add few lost mutex locks. git bisect good
> > fdf9c9979a355916433262ea5e5e64bed5def86e # good:
> > [edbd606c4671fcd439164c8d63e896044d706156] Staging: wlan-ng:
> > Replace WLAN_LOG_ERROR() with printk() git bisect good
> > edbd606c4671fcd439164c8d63e896044d706156 # good:
> > [3516c6a8dc0b1153c611c4cf0dc4a51631f052bb] Merge
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6
> > git bisect good 3516c6a8dc0b1153c611c4cf0dc4a51631f052bb # bad:
> > [3989203290fba6fdf6bc4825fbf6526e1bf17977] Merge
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 git
> > bisect bad 3989203290fba6fdf6bc4825fbf6526e1bf17977 # bad:
> > [d7ca6f8cdffa5765e486edb3dada9121fba8e6aa] Merge branch 'for-linus'
> > of git://git.o-hand.com/linux-rpurdie-backlight git bisect bad
> > d7ca6f8cdffa5765e486edb3dada9121fba8e6aa # good:
> > [3b4dadf05d177289c279c50030c7c75e004952bb] Merge branch
> > 'acpi_enforce_resources' into release git bisect good
> > 3b4dadf05d177289c279c50030c7c75e004952bb # bad:
> > [32fb6c17566ec66de87324a834c7776f40e35e78] Merge branch 'release'
> > of
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
> > git bisect bad 32fb6c17566ec66de87324a834c7776f40e35e78 # good:
> > [45e36c1666aa6c8b0c538abcf984b336184d8c3f] Merge
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6 git
> > bisect good 45e36c1666aa6c8b0c538abcf984b336184d8c3f # good:
> > [33526a53600ac887d100e3c9b4be3637ac8ae3a5] Merge branch 'x2apic'
> > into release git bisect good
> > 33526a53600ac887d100e3c9b4be3637ac8ae3a5 # good:
> > [c542aadeb4700bc316834d862d52ba3d2664f13a] panasonic-laptop: Fix
> > autoloading git bisect good
> > c542aadeb4700bc316834d862d52ba3d2664f13a # bad:
> > [478c6a43fcbc6c11609f8cee7c7b57223907754f] Merge branch 'linus'
> > into release git bisect bad
> > 478c6a43fcbc6c11609f8cee7c7b57223907754f # good:
> > [15065531c1c5902775ae3ade24eb37d0e688353b] toshiba-acpi: remove
> > MAINTAINERS entry git bisect good
> > 15065531c1c5902775ae3ade24eb37d0e688353b # good:
> > [8a3f257c704e02aee9869decd069a806b45be3f1] Merge branch 'misc' into
> > release git bisect good 8a3f257c704e02aee9869decd069a806b45be3f1
>

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