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Le vendredi 07 juillet 2006 à 12:21 -0400, Dave Jones a écrit : > On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 09:25:37PM +1000, Jean-Marc Valin wrote: > > > There was a race in ondemand and conservative which made them lock up on > > > resume (possibly only on SMP systems though). There's a patch for that > > > in current -mm, but I suspect there's another problem (still haven't had > > > any time to track it down). > > > > OK, I tried the patch with 2.6.17 and it didn't work. My laptop failed > > to resume on the first try, so it must be something else. Could someone > > actually have a look at the changes in 2.6.12-rc5-git6 (which happen to > > be cpufreq-related)? I spend months pinpointing the problem to that > > version (it's takes several days to reproduce). I'd appreciate if > > someone could at least have a look at what changed there and maybe fix > > it. > > Can you show /proc/cpuinfo for the affected system ? > If it's 15/3/4 or 15/4/1, that would explain why this kernel, > as this was when support for those models got introduced to > speedstep-centrino. Not sure what's the 15/..., but here's the content: % cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 9 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz stepping : 5 cpu MHz : 598.132 cache size : 1024 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 tm pbe est tm2 bogomips : 1197.24 BTW, speedstep worked fine on my laptop with 2.6.12-rc5-git5 and earlier. > If it's not that, there is a pretty large delta in the ondemand > governor in this update, but I don't see anything blindlingly > obvious from looking over it. Well, is there some way of doing a bisection over these changes? As far as I know, the problem probably affects all Dell D600 owners, probably others. Jean-Marc - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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