linux-kernel - High cpu temperature with 2.6.32, bisection shows commit 69d258

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Date:	Wed, 6 Jan 2010 19:39:48 +0200 (EET)
From:	Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@....net>
To:	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: High cpu temperature with 2.6.32, bisection shows commit 69d258

Hello list,

after upgrading to 2.6.32 kernel, I noticed my P3 500MHz laptop's fan 
was working non-stop. Powertop showed more than 100K wakeups/s even though 
cpu was idling almost 100% (no user nor system cpu usage). Further 
investigation showed that this happened as soon as the "processor" module 
was inserted, whence I also got a message like the following:

tsc unstable due to halts in idle
switching clocksource to acpi_pm

A workaround that currently works for me is to boot with "clocksource=pit" 
parameter. FYI in 2.6.31 logs I had the same message about tsc 
instability, and the final clocksource was acpi_pm too. Nevertheless 
wakeups/s were much less and temperature was low.

I performed a bisection to find which commit to blame. Please look into 
attached files which include dmesg output from good and bad case, and 
bisection output.

What do you think?

Dimitris

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