* Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx> wrote: > This is against 2.6.31, but it should still patch, tell me if not. > Should this also go to stable@xxxxxxxxxx? > > Thanks, > > Thomas > > --------- > This (introduced by Ingo some time ago): > if (!(was_throttled ^ is_throttled) && > time_before64(tmp_jiffs, __get_cpu_var(next_check))) > does not help much. > The interrupts happening and the read out MSR seem to tell that > the CPU gets throttled and unthrottled all the time. > Thus current implementation results in hundreds (thousands?) of "above threshold" > messages per minute. > > This patch is more or less a revert back to the implementation in > older kernels. > The message: > printk(KERN_INFO "CPU%d: Temperature/speed normal\n", cpu); > is not needed as it is suppressed anyway. > > Reference of an affected Core 2 and a Celeron machine: > http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533556 > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx> Have you seen these upstream commits: b417c9f: x86: mce: Fix thermal throttling message storm 3967684: x86: mce: Clean up thermal throttling state tracking code ? If they solve the problem for you then please forward them to stable@xxxxxxxxxxx Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html