Geting this on a 2011 Dell Lattitude, Ubuntu 11.10, always and only when the power cord has been unplugged and then plugged back in again. Once it's started happening, I can turn the kworkers on by plugging the cord in, and turn the big off by unplugging the cord. I've tried with several recent kernels including the realtime ones, and the same behaviour results.
uname -a Linux charles-nst 3.0.12-rt30 #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Wed Dec 14 09:57:01 GMT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/887793 Title: Kworker constantly taking about 100% CPU To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/887793/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs