On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:28:01AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > > Hi, > (hope I got the right addressees above....) > > I appears that when powernow-k8 find that > > No compatible ACPI _PSS objects found. > > and suggests > > Try again with latest BIOS. > > it fails the module load, but does not unregister the cpu_notifier that was > registered in powernowk8_init > > This ends up leaving freed memory on the cpu notifier list for some other > poor module (e.g. md/raid5) to come along and trip over. > > The following might be a partial fix, but I suspect there is probably other > clean-up that is needed. > > ( https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=655215 has full dmesg traces). Ouch, I'm surprised that took so long to turn up. I'll merge this up. It should go to stable too. thanks, Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cpufreq" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
