F18: kworker is using up a lot of CPU

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Hello,

I installed F18 on a Samsung NP700Z7C-S04 laptop. It is dual boot with WIN 8 and has UEFI enabled, but secure boot is disabled. I'm seeing kworker using up around 80% CPU time constantly and the
laptop is running hot.
I found several similar reports on other lists. Suggestions found there like having acpi=noirq and others
didn't help.
There is a closed bugzilla (Bug 840862) suggesting to do the following to find the cause of the problem:

echo workqueue:workqueue_queue_work > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/set_event
cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe > out.txt

In out.txt I find

CPU:3 [LOST 12401 EVENTS]
<idle>-0 [003] d.h. 1010.943940: workqueue_queue_work: work struct=ffff880328a55910 function=acpi_os_execute_deferred workqueue=ffff88032d856b40 req_cpu=0 cpu=0 <idle>-0 [003] d.h. 1010.943969: workqueue_queue_work: work struct=ffff880328a55ad0 function=acpi_os_execute_deferred workqueue=ffff88032d856b40 req_cpu=0 cpu=0 <idle>-0 [003] d.h. 1010.944000: workqueue_queue_work: work struct=ffff880328a553d0 function=acpi_os_execute_deferred workqueue=ffff88032d856b40 req_cpu=0 cpu=0

The acpi_os_execute_deferred message is showing up endlessly.

Also suggested in the bugzilla is doing

cat /proc/2/stack
[<ffffffff81082425>] kthreadd+0x1e5/0x1f0
[<ffffffff8163dfac>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

What to do with this information?
I'm running kernel 3.7.4-204.fc18.x86_64 (the earlier F18 kernels showed the same behaviour).

Any help would be appreciated. Should I sent this to another list?

Thanks.
Eberhard


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