Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:06:19 -0500 From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <alex.kovalenko@verizon.net> To: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> Cc: acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to disable acpi thermal? Message-ID: <1203131179.833.32.camel@RabbitsDen> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0801151525160.29868@sea.ntplx.net> References: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0801142156360.24324@sea.ntplx.net> <1200369199.2054.38.camel@RabbitsDen> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0801151525160.29868@sea.ntplx.net>
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On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 15:34 -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote: > [ Redirected from -current ] > > On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 21:56 -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote: > >> > >> Thermal zone 0 skyrockets past 110C in a couple of minutes > >> when trying to build a kernel. All the other zones stay > >> relatively static. I suspect something is wrong somewhere > >> because this machine is very lightly loaded and has never > >> had a problem until now. I just upgraded it from 4.x to > >> 7.0. > > > > It need not to be bogus -- if I turn off fan on my ThinkPad it will > > overheat and shut itself down within couple of minutes of buildworld, > > starting from the relative cool state. From the look of the stuff below > > your fan should kick in no later then 10 seconds after tz0 reached 77C. > > Do you hear it running before shutdown? If yes, maybe lowering threshold > > in AC0 down from 77C will help. If not -- you will need to figure out > > who is supposed to turn on the fan. You can dump your ASL (instructions > > in the handbook) and post it someplace accessible -- I will take a look > > and maybe spot something interesting, but, being far from the expert in > > the field, I do not promise too much. > > I posted the acpidump here: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~deischen/stl2.iasl > > The problem is that acpi_thermal keeps shutting down the system > after 2 minutes into a buildkernel. The system has no load other > than the buildkernel at the time it shuts down. > > The system is a Intel STL2 Tupelo motherboard with 1 CPU, the > other CPU socket being occupied by a CPU terminator thingy. > I uncovered the rackmount system and watched it while building > a kernel. With the cover off the acpi monitored temperature > went to 107C and stayed there. It only took a minute or two > to get there. I felt around inside the chassis and nothing > was even near being to warm or hot. With the cover on, the > temperature goes to 111/112C before being shutdown by acpi_thermal > (the limit being 110C). There is no way anything in that > chassis is anywhere near 100C. I've disabled acpi_thermal > for now, but it'd be nice to get a better fix. > > Any ideas? > You can try this patch on your ASL, which might just cause passive cooling to kick in. If you decide to try a patch, I would like to see the output of sysctl hw.acpi.thermal regardless of the outcome. OTOH, it just occurred to me that I have observed something like that on my previous laptop. I used cheap thermal paste between the CPU and the heatsink and I used a lot of it. Chassis were relatively cool and yet CPU sensor hit critical trip point. --- stl2.iasl.orig 2008-01-21 22:19:56.000000000 -0500 +++ stl2.iasl 2008-02-15 21:51:37.000000000 -0500 @@ -6161,6 +6161,19 @@ ThermalZone (TZC0) { + Method (_PSL, 0, NotSerialized) + { + Return (Package (0x01) + { + \_PR.CPU0 + }) + } + + Method (_PSV, 0, NotSerialized) + { + Return (0xD9B) + } + Method (_TMP, 0, NotSerialized) { If (LNotEqual (And (\_SB.NCPU, 0x01), 0x01)) -- Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)
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