From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: Re: 2.6.30-rc6: Reported regressions from 2.6.29 Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 01:02:28 +0200 Message-ID: <200905260102.29455.rjw@sisk.pl> References: <_AjETDMbIoL.A.DcH.RYzDKB@chimera> <200905252224.37012.elendil@planet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200905252224.37012.elendil-EIBgga6/0yRmR6Xm/wNWPw@public.gmane.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: kernel-testers-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Frans Pop Cc: linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org, torvalds-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org, kernel-testers-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-acpi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org 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