Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Jan 2004 04:19:13 +0100 | From | Alessandro Suardi <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.2-rc2-bk1 oopses on boot (ACPI patch) |
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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
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