Hi,
On Thursday, 7 of July 2005 07:58, Jon Schindler wrote:
> The dmesg is below. After I get this Oops, I am unable to use my (PS/2)
> keyboard, and had to ssh to my machine in order to save a copy of dmesg
> before rebooting the machine. I've seen a couple of other users of dual
> core machings having this problem. The suggestion so far has been to remove
> the binary nvidia driver and repoducde the bug. So, I went ahead and
> removed the nvidia driver and used the deprecated nv driver that comes with
> X11 and I still have this issue. Does anyone have any ideas what might be
> causing this? Thanks in advance for the help. I don't know my way around
> the kernel, but I do have experience with C and should be able to apply any
> SMP patches if you want me to test it
It seems to be a cpufreq issue. You can try to apply the attached patch from
Mark Langsdorf.
Greets,
Rafael
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-- Lewis Carroll "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
--- linux-2.6.12-rc6/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c.old 2005-06-12 17:41:55.123651184 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.12-rc6/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c 2005-06-12 17:46:32.780440936 -0500
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
#define PFX "powernow-k8: "
#define BFX PFX "BIOS error: "
-#define VERSION "version 1.40.2"
+#define VERSION "version 1.40.4"
#include "powernow-k8.h"
/* serialize freq changes */
@@ -978,7 +978,7 @@
{
struct powernow_k8_data *data;
cpumask_t oldmask = CPU_MASK_ALL;
- int rc;
+ int rc, i;
if (!check_supported_cpu(pol->cpu))
return -ENODEV;
@@ -1064,7 +1064,9 @@
printk("cpu_init done, current fid 0x%x, vid 0x%x\n",
data->currfid, data->currvid);
- powernow_data[pol->cpu] = data;
+ for_each_cpu_mask(i, cpu_core_map[pol->cpu]) {
+ powernow_data[i] = data;
+ }
return 0;
