Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755684Ab1CSPm5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Mar 2011 11:42:57 -0400 Received: from mx0.vr-web.de ([195.200.35.198]:53630 "EHLO mx0.vr-web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754733Ab1CSPmy (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Mar 2011 11:42:54 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 301 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 11:42:54 EDT From: Andreas Hartmann X-Newsgroups: linux.kernel Subject: intel_ips produces constant load of 1 Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:38:38 +0100 Organization: privat Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b13pre) Gecko/20110316 Firefox/4.0b13pre SeaMonkey/2.1b2pre To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-BitDefender-Scanner: Clean, Agent: BitDefender Courier 3.0.2 on vrwf102, sigver: 7.36674 X-BitDefender-CF-Stamp: none Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 4034 Lines: 111 Hello, on my MSI CR620 laptop, intel_ips produces a constant load of 1, even if the machine is idle. The ips-monitor hangs in D state: ps aux | grep ips root 593 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 17:20 0:00 [ips-adjust] root 594 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D 17:20 0:00 [ips-monitor] If the module isn't loaded, the load of the machine in idle mode is 0 as expected. Some more information about ips on this machine: [ 61.689778] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: CPU TDP doesn't match expected value (found 25, expected 29) [ 61.689805] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: PCI INT C -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 [ 61.690236] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: IPS driver initialized, MCP temp limit 90 kernel: [17208.187382] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP limit exceeded: Avg power 35102, limit 35000 kernel: [50357.822192] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP limit exceeded: Avg power 39335, limit 35000Mar 17 18:46:31 linux-8fih kernel: [50362.819118] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP limit exceeded: Avg power 39823, limit 35000Mar 17 18:46:36 linux-8fih kernel: [50367.816045] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP limit exceeded: Avg power 40540, limit 35000Mar 17 18:46:46 linux-8fih kernel: [50377.809947] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP limit exceeded: Avg power 36915, limit 35000Mar 17 18:47:01 linux-8fih kernel: [50392.800632] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP limit exceeded: Avg power 39427, limit 35000Mar 17 18:47:11 linux-8fih kernel: [50402.794479] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP limit exceeded: Avg power 39781, limit 35000 kernel: [50407.791447] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP limit exceeded: Avg power 37437, limit 35000 kernel: [50417.785250] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP limit exceeded: Avg power 37682, limit 35000 kernel: [50422.782204] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP limit exceeded: Avg power 35474, limit 35000 The CPU is: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 37 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 460 @ 2.53GHz stepping : 5 cpu MHz : 2533.000 cache size : 3072 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 11 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm arat dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 5053.43 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: (+ another 3 times) lspci of the signal processing controller: 00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 05) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 1033 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- SERR-