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Re: Bug#415239: linux-image-2.6.18-4-amd64: general protection fault from powernow-k8



On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 12:09:30AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
[]
> > 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?

That was daemon's problem, maybe some rules has changed since 2.6.16
or so, when it was updated. The userspace governor works form me, i
setup laptop on minimum, and if building a kernel switch on maximum:

cd /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/
echo userspace > scaling_governor
dd<scaling_min_freq>scaling_setspeed # or max here
cd /tmp

Another crash in your original report is related to cpu hotplug, but
it seems a known problem and work-in-progress:
,-*-
|Message-ID: <20061229133322.A12358@unix-os.sc.intel.com>
|Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/479386>
|
|Yet another attempt to resolve cpufreq and hotplug locking issues.
`-*-

I don't know how broken it may be in 2.6.18 with all debian's updates.
Maybe cpu-hot-plug isn't useful for default kernel, i also don't know.

Close bugreport, please, if problem will strike again you may reopen it.

> Thanks for your help.

Thank you.

> Hamish
> -- 
> Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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