It appears that when powernow-k8 finds that
No compatible ACPI _PSS objects found.
and suggests
Try again with latest BIOS.
it fails the module load, but does not unregister the cpu_notifier that was
registered in powernowk8_init
This ends up leaving freed memory on the cpu notifier list for some other
poor module (e.g. md/raid5) to come along and trip over.
The following might be a partial fix, but I suspect there is probably other
clean-up that is needed.
( https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=655215 has full dmesg traces).
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
static int __cpuinit powernowk8_init(void)
{
unsigned int i, supported_cpus = 0, cpu;
+ int rv;
for_each_online_cpu(i) {
int rc;
(cpb_enabled ? "on" : "off"));
}
- return cpufreq_register_driver(&cpufreq_amd64_driver);
+ rv = cpufreq_register_driver(&cpufreq_amd64_driver);
+ if (rv < 0 && boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CPB)) {
+ unregister_cpu_notifier(&cpb_nb);
+ msrs_free(msrs);
+ msrs = NULL;
+ }
+ return rv;
}
/* driver entry point for term */