I put Windows 10 back on the machine and installed the Lenovo power manager and Thinkvantage suite. I converted video and used HWinfo to monitor the processor. I couldn't get it to go over 60C / 2GHz in Windows either after closing the lid on battery power. I attached some screenshots of the stats. It says "thermal throttling" when the lid is closed and stays maxed out at 60. In the other screenshot it says "power limit exceeded" which I think is what it must be doing on Balanced / Battery save to stay at 80C instead of mid 90s for max performance.
I also ran acpi_listen and noticed something else. The very first time I trigger HKEY event 0x6032 after powering on the system, 4 lines show up that appear to have something to do with the processor (see acpi attachment.) If I boot up the laptop with the lid closed, it won't start thermal throttling until after I trigger the event for the first time. So that makes me think the throttling is 1. caused by the firmware and 2. definitely related to this event somehow. Thanks again for your help so far!
On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 7:16 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 14 May 2017, neil k wrote:
> Thanks for the response Henrique. I do have the laptop setup not to
> suspend when I close the lid.
Ok.
> So 60C / ~2.0GHz sounds right to you if I have it set to "balanced" for
> battery power, as opposed to the 80C / ~2.9GHz when I run on battery with
> the lid open? I do have a couple options available through the power
Well, to know what it should be doing, you really need to run it under
Windows *with* the Lenovo drivers ("thinkvantage suite") loaded.
But, since it was cooking itself with the lid closed, and now it is not
cooking itself anymore, I'd say it is at least *safer* to keep it set to
"balanced" for now.
> I haven't noticed anything weird with the fan controls. But I can be
Ok.
> so I'll give that a try and see if anything changes. In any case,
> whatever's in control of this appears to be blowing off my settings in the
> BIOS, because the clock speeds and temps don't seem to change even if I set
> everything to Max Performance.
Hmm, check if you have "thermald" running. If you do, try without it
(but keep a close look at temperatures the entire time!). If you don't,
try installing it.
thermald is prone to do very idiotic things on Xeon processors, but for
laptops with mobile processors, it is often a good way to work around
misbehavior.
> If I wanted to change the code of thinkpad-acpi.c to "handle" this event,
> should I treat it the same way as the normal lid open/close events in the
> hotkey_notify_usrevent section? Is this something that could be put in the
> code for later versions?
LID events are actually handled by the acpi "lid" driver, which is sane
on 4.9, but currently insanely broken on 4.11 (and maybe 4.10) -- the
breakage is in the process of being reverted.
Lenovo woudln't add a *new* "LID changed" helper event (like the one you
reported) if its drivers did not have to handle it *differently* from
what is already in there. I think we actually need to know what happens
in Windows to correctly handle this one.
--
Henrique Holschuh
neil@totbox ~ $ sudo acpi_listen processor LNXCPU:00 00000080 00000001 processor LNXCPU:01 00000080 00000001 processor LNXCPU:02 00000080 00000001 processor LNXCPU:03 00000080 00000001 ibm/hotkey LEN0268:00 00000080 00006032 button/lid LID close ibm/hotkey LEN0268:00 00000080 00006032 button/lid LID open jack/lineout LINEOUT unplug jack/videoout VIDEOOUT unplug jack/lineout LINEOUT plug jack/videoout VIDEOOUT plug battery PNP0C0A:01 00000080 00000001 ac_adapter ACPI0003:00 00000080 00000001 ibm/hotkey LEN0268:00 00000080 00006030 thermal_zone LNXTHERM:00 00000081 00000000 battery PNP0C0A:01 00000080 00000001 button/lid LID close ibm/hotkey LEN0268:00 00000080 00006032 button/lid LID open jack/lineout LINEOUT unplug jack/videoout VIDEOOUT unplug jack/lineout LINEOUT plug jack/videoout VIDEOOUT plug
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