Re: 2.6.30-rc6: Reported regressions from 2.6.29

Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-05-25T23:02:28Z

On Monday 25 May 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > If you know of any other unresolved regressions from 2.6.29, please let
> > me know either and I'll add them to the list.
>
> It may be worth tracking a possible regression introduced with -rc6 as a
> result of http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13259.
>
> A new warning that was added in drivers/acpi/processor_throttling.c
> (commit 4973b22a: 'ACPI processor: reset the throttling state once it's
> invalid') may be triggering in cases where it shouldn't. It seems to
> trigger during boot and on 'cat /proc/acpi/processor/*/throttling'.
> Otherwise it's probably relatively harmless.
>
> See the comments starting at #23 for details.

Hmm. It's really better if you file a separate bug for that with a reference
to the previous discussion.

Thanks,
Rafael