Bug#415239: linux-image-2.6.18-4-amd64: general protection fault from powernow-k8
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 10:37:04AM +0100, Oleg Verych wrote:
> 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:
> []
> > > 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?
Hi,
I have been using userspace/powernowd because it worked for me until
now. I have no preference though. I just switched to the ondemand
governor and it seems to be working so far.
Should cpufreq-userspace be removed if it can cause general protection
faults?
Thanks for your help.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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