Re: ACPI: EC: GPE storm detected, transactions will use polling mode

Justin P. Mattock
2008-11-16T16:56:27Z

On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 12:49 +0300, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> > Well; reverting:
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=06cf7d3c7af902939cd1754abcafb2464060cba8
> > is keeping the system from having a gpe storm
> > (for at least four hours now);
> > haven't had a chance to drain the battery and see
> > the affects from that scenario.
> >
> >
> Justin, by decreasing threshold, we just change how often _detection_ of
> the storm fires, not the storm itself.
>
> Regards,
> Alex.

So increasing the threshold was a good thing
(reveal the problem, not hide the problem);
As for the cause itself, is there any tool
that can be used to at-least gain any info
on this?
>From looking at the situation
from here with a macbook, the interaction with the battery
seems to be the cause, but then on other notebooks it's
another situation.(making this problem very intricate).
Anyways I don't have a problem changing the threshold
or using a boot param, to keep this in somewhat control
for the time being until there is a solution.
let me know how I can help.
regards;

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Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>