Re: [PATCH] AMD Thermal Interrupt Support

[Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]

On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:11:51 +0100, Andi Kleen said:
> On Friday 28 December 2007 21:40:28 Russell Leidich wrote:

> +		printk(KERN_CRIT "CPU 0x%x: Thermal monitoring not "
> +			"functional.\n", cpu);
> 
> Why is that KERN_CRIT? Does not seem that critical to me.

If you think you're running on a chipset that *should* support thermal
monitoring, and it isn't there in a usable state, that seems pretty critical
to me.  If that didn't work, you probably can't trust the "oh, the chip will
thermal-limit itself if it gets to 100C or whatever" either.

Of course, I'm just speaking as somebody who quite recently had a system do a
thermal throttle when it hit 85C due to a cooling system failure.  I'm pretty
sure that if thermal monitoring wasn't functional, it wouldn't have throttled
either (after all, how can you throttle when you hit a given temp when you
don't have a working way to tell what the temp even is?), and I'd be looking at
extensive hardware damage...

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