I got an oops on a dual core system because the lost tick handler called cpufreq_get() on core 1 and powernow tried to follow a NULL powernow_data[] pointer there. Initialize powernow_data for all cores of a CPU. Cc: jacob.shin@xxxxxxx Cc: davej@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> --- arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c | 7 ++++--- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c +++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ static DECLARE_MUTEX(fidvid_sem); static struct powernow_k8_data *powernow_data[NR_CPUS]; #ifndef CONFIG_SMP -static cpumask_t cpu_core_map[1]; +static cpumask_t cpu_core_map[1] = { CPU_MASK_ALL }; #endif /* Return a frequency in MHz, given an input fid */ @@ -977,7 +977,7 @@ static int __cpuinit powernowk8_cpu_init { struct powernow_k8_data *data; cpumask_t oldmask = CPU_MASK_ALL; - int rc; + int rc, i; if (!cpu_online(pol->cpu)) return -ENODEV; @@ -1063,7 +1063,8 @@ static int __cpuinit powernowk8_cpu_init 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; - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-x86_64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html