Bug#415239: linux-image-2.6.18-4-amd64: general protection fault from powernow-k8
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 06:50:10PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 07:52:37PM +0100, Oleg Verych wrote:
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> > Try to not use proprietary modules, powernowd daemon (use ondemand
> > driver) and reproduce that.
>
> OK, I will try all that asap (tomorrow hopefully).
>
> Two more observations since then;
> 1. It does crash under heavy load, if powernow-k8 is loaded (+ powernowd
> + cpufreq_userspace).
This daemon seems obsolete to me: last release is more than year ago,
there's ondemand governor, no problems with brain-damage like sysfs.
> 2. If I remove the frequency govenor stuff (stop powernowd, remove all
> modules) then it's perfectly stable.
As i saw so many problems with sysfs (in lkml), i doubt it will get
"better" anyway. Even bug was reported against ondemand governor, and it
turned to be this daemon was running (:.
Why ondemand governor is bad?
> The tainting was caused by the nvidia module, btw.
>
> Hamish
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> Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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