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            <b><a class="bz_bug_link 
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   title="NEW --- - CPU lock with nouveau_fan_update"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65554#c1">Comment # 1</a>
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   title="NEW --- - CPU lock with nouveau_fan_update"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65554">bug 65554</a>
              from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:imirkin@alum.mit.edu" title="Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu>"> <span class="fn">Ilia Mirkin</span></a>
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        <pre>nouveau_fan_update:
    spin_lock_irqsave(&fan->lock, flags);
    /* schedule next fan update, if not at target speed already */
    if (list_empty(&fan->alarm.head) && target != duty) {
        u16 bump_period = fan->bios.bump_period;
        u16 slow_down_period = fan->bios.slow_down_period;
...
        ptimer->alarm(ptimer, delay * 1000 * 1000, &fan->alarm);

If delay is somehow 0, the ->alarm will cause nouveau_fan_update to get called
immediately. Can you add a printk to that function that shows the values? (This
may end up totally flooding your dmesg too... but I think the values may be the
same across prints.)

e.g.

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/therm/fan.c
b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/therm/fan.c
index c728380..9453afd 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/therm/fan.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/therm/fan.c
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ nouveau_fan_update(struct nouveau_fan *fan, bool immediate,
int target)
                        delay = min(bump_period, slow_down_period) ;
                else
                        delay = bump_period;
-
+               nv_info(therm, "Scheduling fan update in %d (slow: %d, bump:
%d)\n", delay, slow_down_period, bump_period);
                ptimer->alarm(ptimer, delay * 1000 * 1000, &fan->alarm);
        }</pre>
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