Re: The regression about EC GPE storm on the latest linus git tree

[Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>]

Hi Yakui,

Does your latest kernel include yesterday pool of patches? 

Thanks,
Alex.
Zhao Yakui wrote:
> Hi, Alexey
>     I do some tests on the latest kernel and find that there exists the
> EC GPE storm on the three laptops. And then EC will work in polling
> mode. One is Asus EEEPC 1000. The other are HP laptops. 
>     
>     I do the similar test on the previous kernel(for example:
> 2.6.27-rc6, 2.6.27.4) and there is no EC GPE storm on the three laptops.
> The EC works in EC GPE interrupt mode. 
>     After the EC debug is used on the 2.6.27-rc6 kernel, I find that at
> most 8 EC interrupts are triggered in each EC transaction(This includes
> the effective EC GPE interrupts). In such case it should not be regarded
> as EC GPE storm.
>        
>     The attached are the dmesg info on the Asus EEEPC 1000. (One is
> based on the latest git tree. One is based on 2.6.27-rc6 kernel).
>     If you need to investigate the root cause about the EC GPE storm,
> please tell me what I should do. I will try my best to test the patch
> from you and give response.
> 
> Thanks.
>    Yakui
>  
>