From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763397AbYFEVCS (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2008 17:02:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752994AbYFEVB7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2008 17:01:59 -0400 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.245]:30561 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752160AbYFEVB6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2008 17:01:58 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=voOcdbR/4fCwu+fW6qDAGGCWNj9Ff0OTupTodhFGjv+4MyezxMBR0gqRYYjD/jt13A PSzeGZj/ke6wY+xYoBwSW4Hb+m8irLpNRD63kMcah2CsGaavCRO4v9aXzxjEEnkBd77k K67R2kMlOfOjR5PLv6stUTF4m5z7XASrz4jDA= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 21:01:55 +0000 From: "Justin Mattock" To: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" Subject: GPE storm detected, disabling EC GPE Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org FWIW I noticed a post where the person had changed 5 to 20, and it seemed to work for them; So with that in mind I decide to give that a go, here is the location: drivers/acpi/ec.c @@ -527,47 +488,51 @@ static u32 acpi_ec_gpe_handler(void *data) { acpi_status status = AE_OK; struct acpi_ec *ec = data; u8 state = acpi_ec_read_status(ec); pr_debug(PREFIX "~~~> interrupt\n"); atomic_inc(&ec->irq_count); - if (atomic_read(&ec->irq_count) > 5) { + if (atomic_read(&ec->irq_count) > 20) { pr_err(PREFIX "GPE storm detected, disabling EC GPE\n"); ec_switch_to_poll_mode(ec); goto end; } Now I don't know if this will work for other brands, but for me(Macbook Pro ATI chipset) I have not received the GPE storm detected, disabling EC GPE message, but it's only been an hour, maybe after two or three this might appear. Also is this good or bad to set 5 to 20 for the system? regards; -- Justin P. Mattock