ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10

DISCUSSION Thomas Meyer 2 participants 5 messages Jan 1, 2007 – Jan 3, 2007 ACPI

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Thomas Meyer

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2007-01-01 14:57 UTC #0 lore raw

I know this topic was already on the list. But 2.6.20-rc3 still gives me tons of these messages in the log buffer:

"ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10
ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10
ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10
ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10
ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10
[and so on]"

Is this an error at all?

With kind regards
Thomas

Len Brown

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2007-01-02 17:05 UTC #1 lore raw

Quoted 11 lines · Thomas Meyer

I know this topic was already on the list. But 2.6.20-rc3 still gives me tons of these messages in the log buffer:
"ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10
ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10
ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10
ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10
ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10
[and so on]"
Is this an error at all?

not an error, just a stray printk in an EC event handler. fix already queued to linus.

The bigger question is why you get "tons of these" -- as EC events are usually infrequent.
Do you have a big number next to "acpi" in /proc/interrupts? If so, at what rate is it growing?

thanks,
-Len

Thomas Meyer

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2007-01-02 20:32 UTC #2 lore raw

Quoted 7 lines · Len Brown

The bigger question is why you get "tons of these" -- as EC events are usually infrequent.
Do you have a big number next to "acpi" in /proc/interrupts? If so, at what rate is it growing?
thanks,
-Len

maybe tons were a bit to overstated... After a fresh reboot, i count 110 _q10 and one _q21messages now with 8 min. uptime and around 10300 acpi interrupts.

Len Brown

reviewer

2007-01-03 03:41 UTC #3 lore raw

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The bigger question is why you get "tons of these" -- as EC events are usually infrequent.
Do you have a big number next to "acpi" in /proc/interrupts? If so, at what rate is it growing?
maybe tons were a bit to overstated... After a fresh reboot, i count 110 _q10 and one _q21messages now with 8 min. uptime and around 10300 acpi interrupts.

480 sec/110 ec events = 4 seconds/event. This doesn't worry me. Could be battery updates, thermal updates etc.

480/10300 = an interrupt every 46 ms.
This is certainly not right.
Have you always seen runaway acpi interrupts on this box, no matter the kernel?

thanks,
-Len

Thomas Meyer

author

2007-01-03 07:47 UTC #4 lore raw

Quoted 8 lines · Len Brown

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The bigger question is why you get "tons of these" -- as EC events are usually infrequent.
Do you have a big number next to "acpi" in /proc/interrupts? If so, at what rate is it growing?
maybe tons were a bit to overstated... After a fresh reboot, i count 110 _q10 and one _q21messages now with 8 min. uptime and around 10300 acpi interrupts.

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480 sec/110 ec events = 4 seconds/event. This doesn't worry me. Could be battery updates, thermal updates etc.
480/10300 = an interrupt every 46 ms.
This is certainly not right.
Have you always seen runaway acpi interrupts on this box, no matter the kernel?

To be honest i didn't care and knew about that this could be an problem until now. But the biggest part of the acpi interrupts seems to happen while the first minutes, maybe while booting because with 22 min. uptime i get these values:

CPU0 CPU1

 0:     413784          0   IO-APIC-edge      timer
 9:      14544          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi

24 min. uptime:
CPU0 CPU1

 0:     435875          0   IO-APIC-edge      timer
 9:      15247          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi

26 min. uptime:

 0:     470428          0   IO-APIC-edge      timer
 9:      16251          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi

So let's say approximatley 700 to 1000 acpi interrupts in 120 seconds. I guess this sounds better, doesn't it?