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

Justin Mattock
2008-07-19T06:56:27Z

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Fabio Comolli <fabio.comolli-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi Alex.
> Well, I read the bug report but still can't understand why in any
> kernels < 2.6.26 I don't have any problems with battery reports and in
> 2.6.26 as soon as the message appears g-p-m starts to behave
> incorrectly.
>
> Anyway, I got back to 25.11 for now, if you have any other workarounds
> for me to test please let me know.
>
> Cheers,
> Fabio
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Alexey Starikovskiy
> <astarikovskiy-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> 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-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org> 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-KKrjLPT3xs0@public.gmane.org> 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-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
>>>>>> 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-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
>>>>>> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
>>>>>> Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>

I'm up to try any patches, but I need to wait
until I find a fix for my linux box i.g.
pci is all messed up.

--
Justin P. Mattock