Re: 2.6.18-rc5 -rc5-mm1: kacpid continuously generating 4% CPU load on HPC nx6325 w/ SUSE 10.1

Alexey Starikovskiy
2006-09-05T16:22:25Z

Please try a patch from #5534 bug report, it seems you have the same deadlock as all other HP users.

Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 September 2006 08:47, Yu Luming wrote:
>> On Sunday 03 September 2006 17:23, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm having a strange issue with the 2.6.18-rc5 and -rc5-mm1 kernels and
>>> SUSE 10.1 on HPC nx6325 that kacpid is generating 4% of CPU load (on one
>>> core) in a continuous manner.
>> Please try to unload thermal module.
>
> albercik:~ # rmmod thermal
>
> [hanging? On another console:]
> albercik:~ # ps ax
> ...
> 4864 pts/0 D+ 0:00 rmmod thermal
> ...
>
>>> It sometimes helps if powersaved is restarted, but only for a short time.
>>> However, after restarting powersaved the kacpid-generated load sometimes
>>> jumps to 100% (on one core) and stays on this level.
>>>
>>> At the same time the battery is never reported to be 100% full (it stops
>>> at ~98% full and loading) and when I tried to unload the battery module,
>>> rmmod ended up in the D state.
>> what do you mean by "in the D state"?
>
> TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE (like above).
>
> Greetings,
> Rafael
>
>