On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 16:58 +0000, Alan Jenkins wrote: > Justin P. Mattock wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 11:15 +0000, Alan Jenkins wrote: > > > >> On 11/18/08, Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >>> in dmesg I see: > >>> [ 11.333737] > >>> but nothing else. > >>> ---------------(cut)----------------- > >>> [ 11.247147] Monitor-Mwait will be used to enter C-1 state > >>> [ 11.247151] Monitor-Mwait will be used to enter C-2 state > >>> [ 11.247154] Monitor-Mwait will be used to enter C-3 state > >>> [ 11.247671] ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3]) > >>> [ 11.247996] processor ACPI_CPU:00: registered as cooling_device0 > >>> [ 11.248008] ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states) > >>> [ 11.306465] ACPI: SSDT 3FEB8F10, 0087 (r1 APPLE Cpu1Ist 3000 > >>> INTL 20050309)<7>power_supply ADP1: No power supply yet > >>> > >> Look at this last line. The "<7>" is a priority marker. Normally it > >> marks the start of a line, and should be hidden. So you seem to be > >> missing a line break just after "20050309)"... > >> > >> > >>> [ 11.306831] power_supply ADP1: power_supply_changed > >>> [ 11.306839] ACPI: AC Adapter [ADP1] (on-line) > >>> [ 11.333737] <------------what's with this!!! > >>> > >> ...which seems to be delayed and reappears here? > >> > >> > >>> [ 11.342937] power_supply ADP1: power_supply_changed_work > >>> [ 11.351901] power_supply ADP1: power_supply_update_gen_leds 1 > >>> [ 11.351916] ACPI: SSDT 3FEB7F10, 0085 (r1 APPLE Cpu1Cst 3000 > >>> INTL 20050309) > >>> > >>> if you need to see the full dmesg I can attach.. > >>> I've seen this happen on a random. > >>> > >> I guess you have a multicore processor (or some other sort of SMP), right? > >> > >> I think kernel messages are not completely synchronized by design, for > >> reliability reasons. (e.g. to make sure critical error messages / > >> backtraces can get through on a dying system). > >> > > > > > > Cool. > > makes good sense to me, > > As long as it's not something that shouldn't be there, > > or something that's broken. As for this happening again > > looking at dmesg nothing, all synchronized. > > Seems to randomly show itself. > > > > It's the ACPICA OS abstraction layer - it splits every message into > multiple printk() calls. Other subsystems don't do this... it probably > could and should be fixed. > > drivers/acpi/utmisc.c: > > void ACPI_INTERNAL_VAR_XFACE > acpi_ut_info(const char *module_name, u32 line_number, const char > *format, ...) > { > va_list args; > > /* > * Removed module_name, line_number, and acpica version, not needed > * for info output > */ > acpi_os_printf("ACPI: "); > > va_start(args, format); > acpi_os_vprintf(format, args); > acpi_os_printf("\n"); > va_end(args); > } > > The alternative is to use the preprocessor, i.e. macros and string > concatenation to generate a single printk(). > > Alan Maybe I'm missing a library or something. The issue with this is the consistency. one reboot I'll see it up higher in dmesg, and then on another reboot nothing, then maybe a few more reboots I'll see it down lower in dmesg(like what I posted). As for fixing this I'm not educated enough to go in and exactly know what to change(one day hopefully, so I can contribute), But I am willing to try a patch out to see if it resolves the issue. regards; -- Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@xxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html