Re: [crash] kernel BUG at drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c:1060!

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:17:11AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
 > 
 > * Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 > 
 > >  > It _looks_ like we're leaking a refcount on that lock, but I don't 
 > >  > see where.  It's a shame you can't reproduce this easily, as 
 > >  > cpufreq.debug=7 would give us more clues. (And 
 > >  > CONFIG_CPUFREQ_DEBUG=y)
 > > 
 > > So we're missing some unlocks in some error paths. It's feasible you 
 > > hit one of those. This patch should be the fix for that.
 > 
 > since it's not really reproducible (i failed to get it since then), how 
 > about you push your fix upstream (it's an obviously correct fix), we 
 > consider this regression fixed and i'll re-notify you if there's still 
 > any problem left. It's not like there's any escape from make randconfig 
 > bootup test coverage in the long run ;-)

Yeah, will push it to Linus today.

	Dave

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