linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] AMD Thermal Interrupt Support

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Date:	Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:34:34 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc:	Russell Leidich <rml@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] AMD Thermal Interrupt Support

On Saturday 29 December 2007 03:30:17 Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:11:51 +0100, Andi Kleen said:
> > On Friday 28 December 2007 21:40:28 Russell Leidich wrote:
> 
> > +		printk(KERN_CRIT "CPU 0x%x: Thermal monitoring not "
> > +			"functional.\n", cpu);
> > 
> > Why is that KERN_CRIT? Does not seem that critical to me.
> 
> If you think you're running on a chipset that *should* support thermal
> monitoring, and it isn't there in a usable state, that seems pretty critical
> to me.  If that didn't work, you probably can't trust the "oh, the chip will
> thermal-limit itself if it gets to 100C or whatever" either.

Thermal shutdown in emergency uses quite different mechanisms (e.g. it goes
directly through pins to the motherboard); i don't think that code checks for 
that.

-Andi
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