RE: [ACPI] kacpid respawning under linux-2.4.20 on Toshiba Satell ite 5105

[Grover, A. <and...@in...>]

> From: Ken Hughes [mailto:kh...@uo...] 
> I have a Toshiba Satellite 5105-S501 and have problems with the latest
> patches for the 2.4.20 kernel.  Under 2.4.19 things work ok, but with
> the 2.4.20 patches I get kacpidpc respawning continuously.  My load
> average sits around 1 with the kacpidpc thread always showing up
> as a zombie process. It also seems that this forces the CPU fan to
> run continuously.  I'm trying to build a 2.4.20-pre kernel (with
> little luck) to see at what point this change occurs.
> 
> Can anyone give me some pointers where to look next in the 2.4.20
> sources?

I would guess if you looked at /proc/interrupts you would also see
continuous ACPI interrupts as well. Is this the case?

I would start tracing what is going on from acpi_ev_sci_handler().

Regards -- Andy