Re: keventd takes 99% of CPU when laptop lid is closed

[Len Brown]

On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 03:29, Antille Julien wrote:

> > Antille Julien <julien.antille@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On 2.4.26, 2.6.5 and 2.6.6, the kernel process keventd takes 99%
> of CPU
> > > when my laptop's lid is closed. It comes back to normal when I
> open it
> > > again. Laptop is a DELL Inspirion 2650.
> > >
> > > This problem did not occure with <=2.4.25 or <= 2.6.4
> >

I expect this is related to the broken state of GPE's.
Bob just completed his GPE re-write -- I'll have it
in the testing tree shortly and hopefully you'll
be able to test it out for us when it hits -mm.

thanks,
-Len


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