Bug 1656416 - irq/51-DELL0820 causes 100% load of CPU
Summary: irq/51-DELL0820 causes 100% load of CPU
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 28
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-12-05 13:34 UTC by Jirka Novak
Modified: 2019-05-28 23:39 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-05-28 23:39:16 UTC
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Description Jirka Novak 2018-12-05 13:34:41 UTC
Description of problem:

I have DELL 3530 laptop. I found that after some time of runtime (a few hours) my fan starts to turn fast and make noise. I checked what wrong and found that there is process irq/51-DELL0820 which tunes one core up to 100%, heats it and therefore fan speeds up.
I'm pretty sure that when I installed FC28 in mid of summer, there was no such issue. I started to observe it a few weeks (4-6) ago. Therefore I expect it came with some new kernel release.
Right now I use 4.18.17-200.fc28.x86_64 and tested vmlinuz-4.19.3-200.fc28.x86_64 with same result. With all 4.18.x releases I have in computer (4.18.13-17) I'm observing same issue.

I updated BIOS to latest version (after I started to observing the issue), but no change.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Kernel 4.18.x and 4.19.x

How reproducible:
Every day, a few ours after start or wakeup of laptop.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start or wakeup the laptop
2. Wait till fan starts to turn fast (a few hours)
3. Top/ps of processes

Actual results:
top - 14:18:28 up 6 days, 17:50,  1 user,  load average: 0.97, 1.00, 1.03
Tasks: 307 total,   1 running, 206 sleeping,   0 stopped,   2 zombie
%Cpu(s):  5.1 us,  2.0 sy,  0.0 ni, 89.0 id,  0.0 wa,  3.7 hi,  0.2 si,  0.0 st
KiB Mem : 16208868 total,  2552188 free,  1836624 used, 11820056 buff/cache
KiB Swap: 33554428 total, 33551604 free,     2824 used. 13856852 avail Mem 

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND                                                                       
  703 root     -51   0       0      0      0 D   6.2  0.0  19:47.46 irq/51-DELL0820                                                               
...

cat /proc/interrupts | grep 51:
  51:   90419204          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0      55333          0  IR-IO-APIC   51-fasteoi   DELL0820:00
  There is about 1-10k of new interrupts per second.

Additional info:

  It looks it is related to DELL HW because 0820:00 is part of ID related to Mouse, Touchpad and one more UNKNOWN device:

DELL0820:00 044E:121F Mouse
DELL0820:00 044E:121F Touchpad
DELL0820:00 044E:121F UNKNOWN

  but I don't know why older kernels were OK with it and new ones are receiving so much interrupts.

  I'm open to experiment to solve the issue.

Best regards,

Jirka Novak

Comment 1 Justin M. Forbes 2019-01-29 16:25:49 UTC
*********** MASS BUG UPDATE **************

We apologize for the inconvenience.  There are a large number of bugs to go through and several of them have gone stale.  Due to this, we are doing a mass bug update across all of the Fedora 28 kernel bugs.

Fedora 28 has now been rebased to 4.20.5-100.fc28.  Please test this kernel update (or newer) and let us know if you issue has been resolved or if it is still present with the newer kernel.

If you have moved on to Fedora 29, and are still experiencing this issue, please change the version to Fedora 29.

If you experience different issues, please open a new bug report for those.

Comment 2 Jirka Novak 2019-02-11 10:31:26 UTC
Hello,

  tested with 4.20.6-100.fc28.x86_64, no change.

Best regards,

Jirka Novak

Comment 3 Ben Cotton 2019-05-02 19:55:57 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 28 is nearing its end of life.
On 2019-May-28 Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for
Fedora 28. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases
that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as
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Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2019-05-28 23:39:16 UTC
Fedora 28 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2019-05-28. Fedora 28 is
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