Bug 71656

Summary: [SNB regression] CPU is running hot with kernel 3.12.0
Product: DRI Reporter: erik
Component: DRM/IntelAssignee: Daniel Vetter <daniel>
Status: CLOSED FIXED QA Contact: Intel GFX Bugs mailing list <intel-gfx-bugs>
Severity: major    
Priority: medium CC: erik, intel-gfx-bugs
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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i915 platform: i915 features:
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Turbostat output, System is idle in the last two stats none

Description erik 2013-11-15 18:19:46 UTC
Created attachment 89278 [details]
Turbostat output, System is idle in the last two stats

Hi,

With kernel 3.12 my Sandybridge Laptop (Lenovo T420) gets easily heated up.
As soon as I start openarena the CPU reaches ~96°C and stays there. It won't cool down, even when idle. The only way to cool the system down is a reboot or suspend to ram.

A bisect between Linux 3.11 and 3.12 identified 351aa5666d02062b52329bcfe4bcf9d1f882fba9 (drm/i915: tune the RC6 threshold for stability) as bad commit. Indeed reverting this commit on 3.12 fixes the problem.

I have attached the turbostat output.

The CPU is Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2520M CPU @ 2.50GHz.
Graphic is
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
Comment 1 Daniel Vetter 2013-11-16 12:17:59 UTC
Thanks for the bisect. I'll queue up the revert if no one has a better idea in the next few days.
Comment 2 Daniel Vetter 2013-11-16 15:07:07 UTC
I've pushed the revert to -fixes. Might be we need your machine to test a few things. I've cc'ed you on the patch so you're on the discussion.
Comment 3 erik 2013-11-16 15:24:18 UTC
Sure, thanks for handling this.

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