irq/184-AudioDS high CPU usage

[korben]

I have received a laptop from my wife as a gift, Acer Swift.
The battery is supposed to be very good.

Upon installation of Manjaro it seemed that way.

However, day by day I am noticing the battery life is already shortening in alarming ways.
First it lasted around 9h, then 5, now it says the battery will last for 3 hours.

irq/184-AudioDS

is always around 10% of processor usage.
It is beyond me how to tackle the issue

Please help good people

edit// to be expected wink
I was going to provide the “…” but my two children can disrupt the whole day let alone my thread posting here goes:

System:
  Kernel: 5.10.131-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.0
    Console: pty pts/1 wm: kwin_x11 DM: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux
    base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Swift SF314-511 v: V1.10
    serial: <filter>
  Mobo: TGL model: Sake_TL v: V1.10 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: 1.10
    date: 09/16/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 32.6 Wh (55.9%) condition: 58.3/56.0 Wh (104.2%)
    volts: 15.1 min: 15.4 model: SMP AP18C7M type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
    status: discharging cycles: 4
Memory:
  RAM: total: 15.43 GiB used: 2.04 GiB (13.2%)
  Array-1: capacity: 16 GiB slots: 8 EC: None max-module-size: 2 GiB
    note: est.
  Device-1: Controller0-ChannelA type: LPDDR4 detail: synchronous
    size: 2 GiB speed: 4267 MT/s volts: 0.6 width (bits): data: 16 total: 16
    manufacturer: Micron Technology part-no: 53E1G32D2NP-046 serial: N/A
  Device-2: Controller0-ChannelB type: LPDDR4 detail: synchronous
    size: 2 GiB speed: 4267 MT/s volts: 0.6 width (bits): data: 16 total: 16
    manufacturer: Micron Technology part-no: 53E1G32D2NP-046 serial: N/A
  Device-3: Controller0-ChannelC type: LPDDR4 detail: synchronous
    size: 2 GiB speed: 4267 MT/s volts: 0.6 width (bits): data: 16 total: 16
    manufacturer: Micron Technology part-no: 53E1G32D2NP-046 serial: N/A
  Device-4: Controller0-ChannelD type: LPDDR4 detail: synchronous
    size: 2 GiB speed: 4267 MT/s volts: 0.6 width (bits): data: 16 total: 16
    manufacturer: Micron Technology part-no: 53E1G32D2NP-046 serial: N/A
  Device-5: Controller1-ChannelA type: LPDDR4 detail: synchronous
    size: 2 GiB speed: 4267 MT/s volts: 0.6 width (bits): data: 16 total: 16
    manufacturer: Micron Technology part-no: 53E1G32D2NP-046 serial: N/A
  Device-6: Controller1-ChannelB type: LPDDR4 detail: synchronous
    size: 2 GiB speed: 4267 MT/s volts: 0.6 width (bits): data: 16 total: 16
    manufacturer: Micron Technology part-no: 53E1G32D2NP-046 serial: N/A
  Device-7: Controller1-ChannelC type: LPDDR4 detail: synchronous
    size: 2 GiB speed: 4267 MT/s volts: 0.6 width (bits): data: 16 total: 16
    manufacturer: Micron Technology part-no: 53E1G32D2NP-046 serial: N/A
  Device-8: Controller1-ChannelD type: LPDDR4 detail: synchronous
    size: 2 GiB speed: 4267 MT/s volts: 0.6 width (bits): data: 16 total: 16
    manufacturer: Micron Technology part-no: 53E1G32D2NP-046 serial: N/A
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: 11th Gen Intel Core i5-1135G7 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    smt: enabled arch: Tiger Lake rev: 1 cache: L1: 320 KiB L2: 5 MiB L3: 8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2167 high: 4159 min/max: 400/4200 volts: 0.7 V
    ext-clock: 100 MHz cores: 1: 534 2: 400 3: 3883 4: 1350 5: 1948 6: 3274
    7: 4159 8: 1789 bogomips: 38720
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat
    arch_capabilities arch_perfmon art avx avx2 avx512_bitalg avx512_vbmi2
    avx512_vnni avx512_vp2intersect avx512_vpopcntdq avx512bw avx512cd
    avx512dq avx512f avx512ifma avx512vbmi avx512vl bmi1 bmi2 bts cat_l2
    cdp_l2 clflush clflushopt clwb cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16
    cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est f16c flexpriority
    flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fsrm fxsr gfni ht hwp hwp_act_window hwp_epp
    hwp_notify hwp_pkg_req ibpb ibrs ibrs_enhanced ida intel_pt invpcid
    invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe movdir64b
    movdiri msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx ospke pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq
    pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pku pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pts rdpid rdrand
    rdseed rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep sha_ni smap smep split_lock_detect
    ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc
    tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer tsc_known_freq umip vaes vme vmx vnmi
    vpclmulqdq vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology
    xtpr
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics]
    vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen12.1 ports:
    active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 0000:00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:9a49 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Chicony HD User Facing type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-5:2
    chip-ID: 04f2:b6dd class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 display-ID: :0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
    s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: AU Optronics 0xda91 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60
    dpi: 158 size: 309x174mm (12.17x6.85") diag: 355mm (14") modes: 1920x1080
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel Xe Graphics (TGL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.1.3
    direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio
    vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: sof-audio-pci bus-ID: 0000:00:1f.3
    chip-ID: 8086:a0c8 class-ID: 0401
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.131-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.55 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
    bus-ID: 0000:00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:a0f0 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
    broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 3-10:4 chip-ID: 8087:0026 class-ID: e001
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller driver: vmd
    v: 0.6 port: N/A bus-ID: 0000:00:0e.0 chip-ID: 8086:9a0b rev:
    class-ID: 0104
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 491.26 GiB used: 41.95 GiB (8.5%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVL2512HCJQ-00BT7
    size: 476.94 GiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
    rev: GXA7302Q temp: 38.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sda type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Ultra USB 3.0
    size: 14.32 GiB type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 215.65 GiB used: 17.41 GiB (8.1%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6 label: N/A uuid: d540af20-98bf-4853-84e1-5bce691c998d
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 299.4 MiB used: 312 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 label: NO_LABEL uuid: 375E-CC05
  ID-3: /run/media/rafal/Acer size: 255.37 GiB used: 24.54 GiB (9.6%)
    fs: ntfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 label: Acer uuid: EE4AA6FE4AA6C327
  ID-4: /run/media/rafal/ESD-USB size: 14.3 GiB used: 320 KiB (0.0%)
    fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 label: ESD-USB uuid: 9A37-2FC0
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p1 size: 100 MiB fs: vfat label: ESP uuid: 44A6-6A0A
  ID-2: /dev/nvme0n1p2 size: 16 MiB fs: N/A label: N/A uuid: N/A
  ID-3: /dev/nvme0n1p4 size: 1024 MiB fs: ntfs label: Recovery
    uuid: 782CA7A32CA75B40
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 1 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 12 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 3-5:2 info: Chicony HD User Facing type: Video driver: uvcvideo
    interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 04f2:b6dd
    class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Device-2: 3-7:3 info: LighTuning EgisTec EH575 type: <vendor specific>
    driver: N/A interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 100mA
    chip-ID: 1c7a:0575 class-ID: ff00 serial: <filter>
  Device-3: 3-10:4 info: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: Bluetooth
    driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA
    chip-ID: 8087:0026 class-ID: e001
  Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 4-1:2 info: SanDisk Ultra Flair type: Mass Storage
    driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s power: 896mA
    chip-ID: 0781:5591 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter>
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 44.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 244 Uptime: 6h 41m wakeups: 677 Init: systemd v: 251
  default: graphical Compilers: gcc: 12.1.0 clang: 14.0.6 Packages:
  pacman: 1260 Shell: Zsh (sudo) v: 5.9 default: Bash v: 5.1.16
  running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.19

[bogdancovaciu]

A good way to start investigating is to know

[HowTo] Provide System Information

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and share that information with us.

Meanwhile, if you want to go ahead, have a look at Acer Swift 5 - ArchWiki as an example of required kernel boot parameters.
A similar issue was reported on Ubuntu Bug #1943392 “irq/174-AudioDS causing high cpu load since 20.04....” : Bugs : Ubuntu

Install more kernels and test them too.
Here Laptop/Acer - ArchWiki is another, more general resource for Acer laptops …

[korben]

sudo dmesg --level emerg,alert,crit,err,warn  

[    0.102973] Spectre V2 : WARNING: Unprivileged eBPF is enabled with eIBRS on, data leaks possible via Spectre v2 BHB attacks!
[    0.121491] ENERGY_PERF_BIAS: Set to 'normal', was 'performance'
[    0.192207] ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, While resolving a named reference package element - ^SPI1.SPFD.CVFD (20210730/dspkginit-438)
[    0.192211] ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, While resolving a named reference package element - ^SPI1.SPFD.CVFD (20210730/dspkginit-438)
[    0.192213] ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, While resolving a named reference package element - ^XHCI.RHUB.HS04.VI2C (20210730/dspkginit-438)
[    0.192223] ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, While resolving a named reference package element - ^XHCI.RHUB.HS04.VI2C (20210730/dspkginit-438)
[    0.399409] pci 0000:00:07.0: DPC: RP PIO log size 0 is invalid
[    0.588573] pnp 00:04: disabling [mem 0xc0000000-0xcfffffff] because it overlaps 0000:00:02.0 BAR 9 [mem 0x00000000-0xdfffffff 64bit pref]
[    0.634834] hpet_acpi_add: no address or irqs in _CRS
[    1.002571] i8042: PNP: PS/2 appears to have AUX port disabled, if this is incorrect please boot with i8042.nopnp
[    1.007995] pci 10000:e0:06.0: Primary bus is hard wired to 0
[    1.009530] usb: port power management may be unreliable
[    1.009561] pci 10000:e0:06.0: Primary bus is hard wired to 0
[    1.009596] pcieport 10000:e0:06.0: can't derive routing for PCI INT D
[    1.009597] pcieport 10000:e0:06.0: PCI INT D: no GSI
[    1.010624] pcieport 10000:e0:06.0: can't derive routing for PCI INT A
[    1.010628] nvme 10000:e1:00.0: PCI INT A: not connected
[    1.737503] acpi PNP0C14:01: duplicate WMI GUID 05901221-D566-11D1-B2F0-00A0C9062910 (first instance was on PNP0C14:00)
[    1.737624] acpi PNP0C14:02: duplicate WMI GUID 05901221-D566-11D1-B2F0-00A0C9062910 (first instance was on PNP0C14:00)
[    2.225152] resource sanity check: requesting [mem 0xfedc0000-0xfedcdfff], which spans more than pnp 00:04 [mem 0xfedc0000-0xfedc7fff]
[    2.225156] caller tgl_uncore_imc_freerunning_init_box+0xba/0x110 [intel_uncore] mapping multiple BARs
[    2.226314] i2c i2c-11: Systems with more than 4 memory slots not supported yet, not instantiating SPD
[    2.227834] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: api flags index 2 larger than supported by driver
[    2.604206] thermal thermal_zone5: failed to read out thermal zone (-61)
[    3.181858] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: warn: FW ABI is more recent than kernel
[    3.277490] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: warn: FW ABI is more recent than kernel
[    3.333333] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: warn: topology ABI is more recent than kernel
[    3.357664] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: ASoC: Parent card not yet available, widget card binding deferred
[    3.429549] snd_hda_codec_realtek ehdaudio0D0: ASoC: sink widget AIF1TX overwritten
[    3.429553] snd_hda_codec_realtek ehdaudio0D0: ASoC: source widget AIF1RX overwritten
[    3.429627] skl_hda_dsp_generic skl_hda_dsp_generic: ASoC: sink widget hifi3 overwritten
[    3.429630] skl_hda_dsp_generic skl_hda_dsp_generic: ASoC: sink widget hifi2 overwritten
[    3.429633] skl_hda_dsp_generic skl_hda_dsp_generic: ASoC: sink widget hifi1 overwritten
[    3.429635] skl_hda_dsp_generic skl_hda_dsp_generic: ASoC: source widget Codec Output Pin1 overwritten
[    3.429637] skl_hda_dsp_generic skl_hda_dsp_generic: ASoC: sink widget Codec Input Pin1 overwritten
[    3.429646] skl_hda_dsp_generic skl_hda_dsp_generic: ASoC: sink widget Analog Codec Playback overwritten
[    3.429650] skl_hda_dsp_generic skl_hda_dsp_generic: ASoC: sink widget Digital Codec Playback overwritten
[    3.429653] skl_hda_dsp_generic skl_hda_dsp_generic: ASoC: sink widget Alt Analog Codec Playback overwritten
[    3.429656] skl_hda_dsp_generic skl_hda_dsp_generic: ASoC: source widget Analog Codec Capture overwritten
[    3.429660] skl_hda_dsp_generic skl_hda_dsp_generic: ASoC: source widget Digital Codec Capture overwritten
[    3.429663] skl_hda_dsp_generic skl_hda_dsp_generic: ASoC: source widget Alt Analog Codec Capture overwritten
[    3.429669] skl_hda_dsp_generic skl_hda_dsp_generic: hda_dsp_hdmi_build_controls: no PCM in topology for HDMI converter 3

[    7.803805] kauditd_printk_skb: 48 callbacks suppressed
[    9.515015] ntfs3: Unknown parameter 'windows_names'
[   12.873975] kauditd_printk_skb: 16 callbacks suppressed
[  112.719150] acer_wmi: Unknown function number - 4 - 0
[  113.549097] acer_wmi: Unknown function number - 4 - 0
[  266.201696] kauditd_printk_skb: 2 callbacks suppressed

And now the errors.

What I have done so far is to switch from Kernel 5.10 to 5.15 and the battery seems to have regained its original true potential. I have to make more tests…

Oh boy oh boy so far so bumpy
On 5.15 the ethernet breaks up
On 5.10 the battery dwindles
On 5.4 and 4.9 errors, unbootable

/var/log/ should I paste it here?

[brahma]

try also with the 5.18 kernel …
logs post from this command:
journalctl -b0 -p4 --no-pager

[korben]

@brahma

journalctl -b0 -p4 --no-pager

korben - Pastebin.com

Good people, I am working on it

[brahma]

did you tried the 5.18 kernel?

[korben]

Here’s the thing…
When I try to install a new Kernel it gets stuck on the retrieving packages.
It keeps doing its thing, the installation process never ends.
Something must be seriously messed up.

[brahma]

try this:
sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack 5 && sudo pacman -Syyu
then:
sudo mhwd-kernel -i linux518
reboot and select it in grub menu

[korben]

They used to teach me this…OMG, 6 years ago. I am so uneducated…

Now
journalctl -b0 -p4 --no-pager

?

[brahma]

do you still have high audio cpu usage with the 5.18?

[korben]

Not any longer, at least as we speak.

Now I have to be observing the battery depletion stages and Ethernet break-ups oh boy

brahma, you are my brother!