I'm not sure if I'm having exactly the same issue but my kworker also makes CPU 
really high. It started from upgrade to Kubuntu 12.10:
perf record is giving me:
Samples: 39K of event 'cycles', Event count (approx.): 27911930181, Thread: 
kworker/0:2(558)                                                                
                
+  46,65%  kworker/0:2  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] native_read_tsc                  
                                                                                
           ◆
+  39,08%  kworker/0:2  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] delay_tsc                        
                                                                                
           ▒
+   6,48%  kworker/0:2  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] acpi_os_read_port                
                                                                                
           ▒
+   4,38%  kworker/0:2  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] acpi_ec_gpe_handler              
                                                                                
           ▒
+   1,84%  kworker/0:2  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] acpi_os_write_port               
                                                                                
           ▒
+   0,27%  kworker/0:2  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] acpi_ec_transaction_unlocked 

uname -a:

Linux qwert 3.5.0-18-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 19 10:26:51 UTC 2012 x86_64 
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Any ideas where to look further?

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