Re: Temperature above threshold loop with 2.6.31.1

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:

> Trevor Hemsley wrote:
> > I just downloaded and installed the latest 2.6.31.1 kernel on my
> > machine here and I think I found a small bug. Shortly after boot I
> > start to receive messages like
> > 
> > CPU0: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events =
> > 21672)
> [...] 
> > More importantly, I get approximately 100,000 of these messages per
> > minute and the machine is completely unusable. All of these are for
> > CPU0 - at least all the ones that get written to /var/log/messages.
> > 
> > 1,666 notifications a second seems a little on the 'too frequent' side
> > of things to me :-)
> 
> Looks like this may already be fixed in mainline by the following commit:
> commit b417c9fd8690637f0c91479435ab3e2bf450c038
> Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> Date:   Tue Sep 22 15:50:24 2009 +0200
>     x86: mce: Fix thermal throttling message storm
> 
> Can you confirm that please, either by compiling current git or by applying 
> that commit on top of 2.6.31.1?
> 
> Ingo: is that patch already scheduled for stable?

Not yet - i just forwarded it. Thanks for pointing it out,

	Ingo