Re: 2.6.27-rc1: critical thermal shutdown on thinkpad x60

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Aug 07 2008 - 17:12:39 EST


Hi!

> > Aug 6 11:00:10 amd kernel: ACPI: Critical trip point
> > Aug 6 11:00:10 amd kernel: Critical temperature reached (128 C),
> > shutting down.
> > Aug 6 11:00:10 amd shutdown[24414]: shutting down for system halt
> >
> > ...and machine went down at that point :-(.
>
> This one is quite repeatable:
>
> Aug 7 10:46:24 amd dhclient: DHCPACK from 10.20.0.2
> Aug 7 10:46:24 amd dhclient: bound to 10.20.5.28 -- renewal in 7200
> seconds.
> Aug 7 10:50:46 amd kernel: thinkpad_acpi: unhandled HKEY event 0x6022
> Aug 7 10:51:03 amd last message repeated 48 times
> Aug 7 10:51:05 amd kernel: ACPI: Critical trip point
> Aug 7 10:51:05 amd kernel: Critical temperature reached (128 C),
> shutting down.
> Aug 7 10:51:05 amd shutdown[1928]: shutting down for system halt
> Aug 7 10:51:06 amd init: Switching to runlevel: 0
> Aug 7 10:51:06 amd kernel: thinkpad_acpi: unhandled HKEY event 0x6022
> Aug 7 10:51:09 amd last message repeated 7 times
> Aug 7 10:51:09 amd kernel: ACPI: Critical trip point
> Aug 7 10:51:09 amd kernel: Critical temperature reached (128 C),
> shutting down.
> Aug 7 10:51:12 amd exiting on signal 15
> Aug 7 10:54:01 amd syslogd 1.5.0#1: restart.
> Aug 7 10:54:01 amd kernel: klogd 1.5.0#1, log source = /proc/kmsg
> started.
>
> ...and it does not seem to be stray reading from the sensor: cat
> /proc/acpi/therm*/*/* shows the bogus value in like 5 consecutive
> readings.
>
> Plus the temperature rises up to 95C before this triggers, and machine
> is so hot it refuses to start again. Trip points seem to assume 128C,
> too:
>
> root@amd:~# cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM*/trip*
> critical (S5): 127 C
> critical (S5): 97 C
> passive: 93 C: tc1=5 tc2=4 tsp=600 devices=CPU0 CPU1
> root@amd:~#

while true; do echo -n; done &
while true; do echo -n; done &

is enough to trigger this. According to /proc/acpi/ibm, fan is running
too slowly...?
Pavel

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