`kworker` - High CPU Usage

Hello,

Since the last laptop reboot, the fan on my Framework 13 laptop (11th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-1135G7) is constantly spinning at high speed, even if none of the apps I regularly use is opened.

top - 06:29:23 up 13 min,  2 users,  load average: 2.32, 1.86, 1.15
Tasks: 347 total,   3 running, 344 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s):  3.9 us, 12.6 sy,  0.0 ni, 81.4 id,  0.0 wa,  0.6 hi,  1.5 si,  0.0 st 
MiB Mem :  15770.3 total,   2300.2 free,   3582.6 used,  11344.9 buff/cache     
MiB Swap:   8192.0 total,   8192.0 free,      0.0 used.  12187.7 avail Mem 

    PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND                                          
   7367 root      20   0       0      0      0 R  86.1   0.0   4:43.47 kworker/3:3+pm                                   
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This has not happened before, and I don’t remember seeing kworker usage so high before.

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