Re: 2.6.30-rc6: Reported regressions from 2.6.29

Frans Pop
2009-05-26T15:30:51Z

On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 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.

Done (after doing additional debugging):
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13389

Marked as regression and set as blocking for #13070.

Cheers,
FJP