Re: [ACPI] GPE storm detected on FS Amilo Pro

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Wednesday 21 January 2009, Jacek Luczak wrote:
> Hi All,

Hi Jacek,

> I've got that ,,GPE storm detected'' issue on my Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pro
> notebook.  I was using 2.6.25.20 (which was fine) for a long while and recently
> started testing some latest git versions starting from 2.6.29-rc2 where I've
> discovered that issue. So I've made some back kernels and it shows up from
> 2.6.26 kernel. Bisection between 2.6.25 and 2.6.26 shows that patch:
> 
> fa95ba04e6ba11d71e1b87becd054b38faf546c8 is first bad commit
> commit fa95ba04e6ba11d71e1b87becd054b38faf546c8
> Author: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
> Date:   Fri Mar 21 19:36:02 2008 +0300
> 
>     ACPI: EC: Detect irq storm
> 
>     Problem seems to be that hw fails to clear GPE after we service it and write 1
>     into corresponding bit. Thus, as soon as we get interrupts enabled again, we
>     receive a new one. Google gives too many results for "acer interrupt storm" for
>     this being one-broken-machine case.
> 
>     Reference: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9998
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
>     Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
> 
> The bug[1] (reopened recently) seems to be quite different than the one in my
> case. I've got no ,,side effects'' of that GPE storm. Notebook works fine and I
> didn't discovered any interrupts problems.

So everything appears to be OK except that your hardware has a problem,
which is correctly worked around and the message just tells you what happens.

> Up to 2.6.28 GPE storm information is printed early[2]:
> 
> Setting up standard PCI resources
> ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
> ACPI: Interpreter enabled
> ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
> ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
> ACPI: EC: non-query interrupt received, switching to interrupt mode
> ACPI: EC: GPE storm detected, disabling EC GPE
> ACPI: EC: GPE = 0x17, I/O: command/status = 0x66, data = 0x62
> ACPI: EC: driver started in poll mode
> ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
> 
> While recent git[3] which I'm now running, shows it after setting-up AC adapter[4]:
> 
> ACPI: AC Adapter [ADP1] (on-line)
> ACPI: EC: GPE storm detected, transactions will use polling mode
> Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 1
> Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
> ACPI: EC: missing confirmations, switch off interrupt mode.
> ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
> input: Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input0
> ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
> input: Lid Switch as /class/input/input1
> ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
> input: Sleep Button (CM) as /class/input/input2
> ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
> 
> I'm not sure if the origin of that GPE storm is the same in both cases. Will try
> to do bisection here later if needed.
> 
> NOTE: In git kernel I've noticed that after boot and obtaining IP from DHCP I've
> got such message:
> 
> Jan 21 14:44:32 difrost kernel: sky2 eth0: enabling interface
> Jan 21 14:44:33 difrost kernel: sky2 eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex,
> flow control rx
> Jan 21 14:45:36 difrost kernel: ACPI: EC: missing confirmations, switch off
> interrupt mode.
> 
> This is not fully reproducible, didn't shown on [4].

This may be related to the issue behind the GPM storm message.

Thanks,
Rafael