From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754440Ab1JOANy (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:13:54 -0400 Received: from lucidpixels.com ([72.73.18.11]:53646 "EHLO lucidpixels.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751007Ab1JOANx (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:13:53 -0400 Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:13:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Justin Piszcz To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 3.1-rc9: IPMI Bug in 3.x++ [kipmi utilizes 100% CPU until ipmitool sel clear is issued[ Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, Kernel: 3.1-rc9 on x86-64 PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1203 root 39 19 0 0 0 R 100 0.0 3693:29 kipmi0 I have a supermicro board in a non-supermico chassis and it keeps alerting that there is a chassis intrusion, when it fills up this process goes to 100%, when I run ipmitool sel clear, it goes back to 0-1%. # ipmitool sel clear Then-- PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1203 root 39 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 3695:26 kipmi0 Would LKML consider this a kernel bug, shouldn't it just discard future incoming events/and/or treat/handle it differently rather than using 100% of the CPU? Justin.