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SubjectRe: 2.6.2-rc2-bk1 oopses on boot (ACPI patch)
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>>Divide by zero. Looks like ACPI is now passing bad values into the
>>frequency change notifier.
>>
>>Does this make the oops go away?
>
>
> Other values will still cause divide-by-zero (any divisor in 0..9 will do
> it). Besides, we're dividing with _old_, not new, so that's the one we
> should likely check.
>
> Linus

Indeed... I get two of the debug printks from the patch, but in the
end I still oops due to a div-by-zero with EIP in time_cpufreq_notifier.

I'll try and look into Linus' suggestion about printing out stuff from
adjust_jiffies() in cpufreq.c and will report later.


Thanks,

--alessandro

"Two rivers run too deep
The seasons change and so do I"
(U2, "Indian Summer Sky")

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