Some Intel CPUs do not set the 'valid' bit in IA32_THERM_STATUS if the temperature is too low to be measured. This condition will not change until the CPU is hot enough for its temperature to be measured. Returning an error in such conditions is not very useful. Drop checking the valid bit and just return the reported temperature instead. Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- I don't think we ever closed on this. Giving it a shot. drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c | 17 +++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c b/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c index 310ce19..6e0579e 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c @@ -177,18 +177,19 @@ static ssize_t show_temp(struct device *dev, /* Check whether the time interval has elapsed */ if (!tdata->valid || time_after(jiffies, tdata->last_updated + HZ)) { rdmsr_on_cpu(tdata->cpu, tdata->status_reg, &eax, &edx); - tdata->valid = 0; - /* Check whether the data is valid */ - if (eax & 0x80000000) { - tdata->temp = tdata->tjmax - - ((eax >> 16) & 0x7f) * 1000; - tdata->valid = 1; - } + /* + * Ignore the valid bit. In all observed cases the register + * value is either low or zero if the valid bit is 0. + * Return it instead of reporting an error which doesn't + * really help at all. + */ + tdata->temp = tdata->tjmax - ((eax >> 16) & 0x7f) * 1000; + tdata->valid = 1; tdata->last_updated = jiffies; } mutex_unlock(&tdata->update_lock); - return tdata->valid ? sprintf(buf, "%d\n", tdata->temp) : -EAGAIN; + return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", tdata->temp); } struct tjmax_pci { -- 1.7.9.7 _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors