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

Vegard Nossum
2008-07-13T20:48:26Z

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Hugh Dickins <hugh-DTz5qymZ9yRBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> I didn't follow the discussion, but I may contribute the following information:
>>
>> This message first appears in my logs on May 16. That was with kernel
>> version 2.6.24.5-85.fc8. The kernel I used before that was
>> 2.6.24.4-64.fc8 (May 3). My logs go back to November 8
>> (2.6.23.1-42.fc8). So we can hardly consider this a regression since
>> 2.6.25, but rather one since 2.6.24?
>>
>> (I'll also note that this message appears quite infrequently here.
>> Only 42 times in 219 boot-ups. So it would be hard to bisect, but I'm
>> guessing the error was introduced somewhere between 2.6.24.4 and
>> 2.6.24.5.)
>
> You're comparing against Fedora kernels, which often contain
> patches which haven't got into mainline yet. As in this case.
> Unless it used to be assembled from separate pieces, there was
> no "GPE storm detected" message in 2.6.24.N or 2.6.25.N: it was
> added in 2.6.26-rc1.
>
> I sometimes see it too, on a Fujitsu-Siemens laptop.

Oh, right. So what exactly is the bug here? That the message appears
at all? Or is there another specific change that would cause the
warning to trigger once added? Or why do we have bugzilla entries for
broken hardware? Is there anything I can do to help the situation as
the owner of a machine which exhibits the problem?

Thanks for the info :-)

Vegard

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