Re: OOPS: 2.6.16-rc6 cpufreq_conservative

From: Parag Warudkar
Date: Sun Mar 19 2006 - 01:41:53 EST


On Saturday 18 March 2006 19:53, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I might stick a once-off WARN_ON() in there so someone gets in
> and works out why we keep on having to graft mysterious null-pointer
> avoidances into cpufreq.
cpufreq_conservative should be marked broken on SMP - I have used it on UP
boxes without trouble but I can't even safely modprobe it on SMP - it nearly
ate my filesystem.

And there seem to be multiple different problems with it - I get different
oopses depending upon whether or not I have loaded it before or after the
ondemand module. Weird enough - cpufreq_conservative shares much of it's
code with cpufreq_ondemand, which works without any problem.

Let me know if anyone has objection to marking cpufreq_conservative
depends !SMP - I am planning to submit a patch soon.

Parag
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