Hi On Tuesday 18 February 2014, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > 3.13-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > ------------------ > > From: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brandewie@xxxxxxxxx> > > commit fcb6a15c2e7e76d493e6f91ea889ab40e1c643a4 upstream. > > Take non-idle time into account when calculating core busy time. > This ensures that intel_pstate will notice a decrease in load. > > References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66581 > Cc: 3.10+ <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.10+ > Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brandewie@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This patch, as part of v3.13.4-rc1 causes a kernel package very early during the boot on at least sandy-bridge (H67) and ivy-bridge (H77), the call trace (slightly cut on top, as it doesn't fit on the screen; copied by hand - so it might contains typos, especially in the heaxdecimal values) is: RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000006000 RDI: 0000000000002200 RBP: 00000009efce4c2b R08: 0000000a3e90e95c R09: 0000000000017700 R10: 0000000000000026 R11: 000000000000002a R12: 0000000000000000 R13: ffff880408ac4c2b R14: ffff88041f20c388 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88041f200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: fff88041f5ff000 CR3: 000000000d510000 CR4: 00000000000407f0 Stack: 00000000fffffffd ffff880408ac4a00 ffff880408ac4800 ffffffff81294b82 ffff880408ac4800 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffffff812925b3 0000000000000011 ffffffff81578e70 ffff880408ca9de8 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81294b82>] ? intel_pstate_cpu_init+0x107/0x1c2 [<ffffffff812925b3>] ? __cpufreq_add_dev.isra.23+0x30c/0x676 [<ffffffff81269174>] ? subsys_interface_register+0xab/0xdf [<ffffffff8106d2df>] ? arch_local_irq_save+0x11/0x17 [<ffffffff81291279>] ? cpufreq_register_driver+0x9e/0x143 [<ffffffff8129438d>] ? core_get_min_pstate+0x19/0x19 [<ffffffff815df06e>] ? intel_pstate_init+0x269/0x397 [<ffffffff815dee05>] ? intel_pstate_setup+0x29/0x29 [<ffffffff810020da>] ? do_one_initcall+0x88/0x123 [<ffffffff81057794>] ? parse_args+0x182/0x236 [<ffffffff815adee1>] ? kernel_init_freeable+0x183/0x208 [<ffffffff815ad721>] ? do_early_param+0x81/0x81 [<ffffffff8136d288>] ? rest_init+0x7c/0x7c [<ffffffff8136d28d>] ? kernel_init+0x5/0xfa [<ffffffff8137e1cc>] ? ret_from_fork+0x7c/0x7c [<ffffffff8136d288>] ? rest_init+0x7c/0x7c Code: 00 48 6b 41 08 64 48 8b 79 10 49 c1 e1 08 48 f7 f7 31 d2 48 89 c6 48 6b c7 64 49 63 f9 4c 69 ce e8 03 00 00 48 c1 e6 08 48 63 f6 <48> f7 71 18 49 c1 e1 09 4d 63 c9 49 0f af f9 48 8d 50 01 48 c1 RIP [<ffffffff812947c4>] intel_pstate_sample+0xb6/0x104 RSP <ffff880408ca9d28> ---[ end trace 682f24c8e98de9df ]--- Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b Reverting just this patch from 3.13.4-rc1 fixes the regression. Regards Stefan Lippers-Hollmann -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html