Re: cpufreq stops working after a while

[Mark Lord]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Mark Lord <lkml@xxxxxx> wrote:
..
> > I use speedstep-centrino with it, and after boot all is usually okay.
> > But after a few hours of operation, it stops shifting to the highest frequency
> > even under continuous 100% load (or not).  Eventually it gets stuck at 600Mhz
> > and stays there until I reboot.
..
> > WHY?
>
> cpufreq seems to have relatively frequent problems.
>
> >  And how can I fix it?
>
> You could start by telling us which kernel versions are affected ;)

Heh.  2.6.17.6 and 2.6.18-rc3-git4 are the two kernels I have for it,
and both exhibit the problem.

Dave Jones wrote:
> boot with cpufreq.debug=7, and capture dmesg output after it fails

I'll reboot with the debug options and see..

Cheers
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