ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10

ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10

[Thomas Meyer]

I know this topic was already on the list. But 2.6.20-rc3 still gives me 
tons of these messages in the log buffer:

"ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10
ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10
ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10
ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10
ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10
[and so on]"

 Is this an error at all?

With kind regards
Thomas

Re: ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10

[Len Brown]

On Monday 01 January 2007 09:56, Thomas Meyer wrote:
> I know this topic was already on the list. But 2.6.20-rc3 still gives me 
> tons of these messages in the log buffer:
> 
> "ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10
> ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10
> ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10
> ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10
> ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10
> [and so on]"
> 
>  Is this an error at all?

not an error, just a stray printk in an EC event handler.
fix already queued to linus.

The bigger question is why you get "tons of these" --
as EC  events are usually infrequent.
Do you have a big number next to "acpi" in /proc/interrupts?
If so, at what rate is it growing?

thanks,
-Len

Re: ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10

[Thomas Meyer]

Len Brown schrieb:
> The bigger question is why you get "tons of these" --
> as EC  events are usually infrequent.
> Do you have a big number next to "acpi" in /proc/interrupts?
> If so, at what rate is it growing?
>
> thanks,
> -Len

maybe tons were a bit to overstated... After a fresh reboot, i count 110 
_q10 and one _q21messages now with 8 min. uptime and around 10300 acpi 
interrupts.

Re: ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10

[Len Brown]

> > The bigger question is why you get "tons of these" --
> > as EC  events are usually infrequent.
> > Do you have a big number next to "acpi" in /proc/interrupts?
> > If so, at what rate is it growing?
> 
> maybe tons were a bit to overstated... After a fresh reboot, i count 110 
> _q10 and one _q21messages now with 8 min. uptime and around 10300 acpi 
> interrupts.

480 sec/110 ec events = 4 seconds/event.  This doesn't worry me.
Could be battery updates, thermal updates etc.

480/10300 = an interrupt every 46 ms.
This is certainly not right.
Have you always seen runaway acpi interrupts on this box, no matter the kernel?

thanks,
-Len

Re: ACPI: EC: evaluating _Q10

[Thomas Meyer]

Len Brown schrieb:
>>> The bigger question is why you get "tons of these" --
>>> as EC  events are usually infrequent.
>>> Do you have a big number next to "acpi" in /proc/interrupts?
>>> If so, at what rate is it growing?
>>>       
>> maybe tons were a bit to overstated... After a fresh reboot, i count 110 
>> _q10 and one _q21messages now with 8 min. uptime and around 10300 acpi 
>> interrupts.
>>     
>
> 480 sec/110 ec events = 4 seconds/event.  This doesn't worry me.
> Could be battery updates, thermal updates etc.
>
> 480/10300 = an interrupt every 46 ms.
> This is certainly not right.
> Have you always seen runaway acpi interrupts on this box, no matter the kernel?
>   
To be honest i didn't care and knew about that this could be an problem 
until now. But the biggest part of the acpi interrupts seems to happen 
while the first minutes, maybe while booting because with 22 min. uptime 
i get these values:

           CPU0       CPU1
  0:     413784          0   IO-APIC-edge      timer
  9:      14544          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi

24 min. uptime:
           CPU0       CPU1
  0:     435875          0   IO-APIC-edge      timer
  9:      15247          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi

26 min. uptime:
  0:     470428          0   IO-APIC-edge      timer
  9:      16251          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi

So let's say approximatley 700 to 1000 acpi interrupts in 120 seconds. I 
guess this sounds better, doesn't it?