Re: [lm-sensors] 3.13.?: Strange / dangerous fan policy...

[Guenter Roeck]

On 03/08/2014 03:08 AM, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Mar 2014 14:52:30 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 11:04:29PM +0100, Manuel Krause wrote:
> > > Hi, and thanks for the quick response!
> > > No special fancy "fan control policy". 'fancontrol' isn't up or
> > > running.
> > > Vanilla kernels 3.11.* and 3.12.* had been working on here without
> > > any extra work.
> > > --
> > > # sensors
> > > acpitz-virtual-0
> > > Adapter: Virtual device
> > > temp1:        +71.0°C  (crit = +256.0°C)
> > > temp2:        +69.0°C  (crit = +110.0°C)
> > > temp3:        +52.0°C  (crit = +105.0°C)
> > > temp4:        +25.0°C  (crit = +110.0°C)
> > > temp5:        +58.0°C  (crit = +110.0°C)
> > >
> > > coretemp-isa-0000
> > > Adapter: ISA adapter
> > > Core 0:       +62.0°C  (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
> > > Core 1:       +60.0°C  (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
> > > --
> > > My notebook (HP/Compaq 6730b) does not have a seperate fan sensor.
> > > This is with 3.12.13 with my normal workload.
> > >
> > > Please, trust my above mentionned values of 94 °C vs. 74°C as I
> > > don't like to boot 3.13.6 anymore, to avoid harm to the notebook's
> > > casing.
> >
> > Understood. Unfortunately, we'll need to get information
> > from the new kernel to be able to track down the problem.
>
> Indeed. Not only the run-time temperatures, but also the high and crit
> limits.
>
> > > But I'd do to test any improvement-patch.
> >
> > So far I have no idea what is going on. I don't see anything in the
> > drivers providing above data that would explain the behavior,
> > but I might be missing something.
>
> Looks like a regression in the acpi subsystem or in power management,
> not hwmon. Hwmon is merely reporting the temperatures, it's not
> responsible for the actual temperatures.

I would agree. I don't think we have enough information to be sure,
though. There might be some unintended interaction or interference.

gpu is a good hint ... for example, look at commit b9ed919f1c8
(drm/nouveau/drm/pm: remove everything except the hwmon interfaces
to THERM). nouveau does export pwm and fan control information,
so any change in that code may have unintended side effects.
Similar, I don't know how ec39f64bba (drm/radeon/dpm: Convert to
use devm_hwmon_register_with_groups) could have the observed impact,
as it is purely passive, but I prefer to be rather safe than sorry.

This problem has now been submitted into bugzilla as
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71711.

Guenter

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