From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751037Ab3I0KW6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Sep 2013 06:22:58 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:41023 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750805Ab3I0KW4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Sep 2013 06:22:56 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:22:54 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Cc: lenb@kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, kernel list , ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: thinkpad x60: critical thermal shutdown does not work (and ethernet overheats) Message-ID: <20130927102254.GC18121@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> References: <20120515181004.GA2499@elf.ucw.cz> <20130923095814.GA2052@Nokia-N900> <20130923120256.GB29847@khazad-dum.debian.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130923120256.GB29847@khazad-dum.debian.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon 2013-09-23 09:02:56, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 23 Sep 2013, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > I have rather old thinkpad x60 here. Long time ago, I noticed that on > > > high continuous ethernet load, it shuts itself down in regular > > > way. I traced it down to overheat, followed by ACPI signaling system > > > to go down. > > > > just to wrap the story up... after fixing pcie aspm problems, > > ethernet apparently stopped overheating. > > And that means a new kernel with fixed ASPM handling, or disabling ASPM > entirely, or what? That means single-line forcing ASPM to be disabled, even through linux is normally not able to disable ASPM when it is not supported by the BIOS. Someone at Intel knows about the problem, hopefully they will present some better solution... > Good to know it can be handled by a software fix, though! Yes :-). [I wonder if it happens on other X60 machines, too?] Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html