From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753270Ab3G1IMd (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Jul 2013 04:12:33 -0400 Received: from e23smtp05.au.ibm.com ([202.81.31.147]:39888 "EHLO e23smtp05.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752102Ab3G1IM2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Jul 2013 04:12:28 -0400 Message-ID: <51F4D18A.7080605@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 13:38:42 +0530 From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120828 Thunderbird/15.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?VG9yYWxmIEbDtnJzdGVy?= CC: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , cpufreq@vger.kernel.org, Linux PM list , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Viresh Kumar Subject: Re: stable 3-10-3: strange output of "lsmod | grep ^acpi_cpufreq" References: <51F40612.2050403@gmx.de> <4531734.kTFAPunoch@vostro.rjw.lan> <51F4D17F.1090107@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <51F4D17F.1090107@gmx.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 13072808-1396-0000-0000-000003534E05 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/28/2013 01:38 PM, Toralf Förster wrote: > On 07/28/2013 01:39 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >> On Saturday, July 27, 2013 07:40:34 PM Toralf Förster wrote: >>> it gives at a ThinkPad T420: >>> >>> tfoerste@n22 ~/tmp $ lsmod | grep ^acpi_cpufreq >>> acpi_cpufreq 12902 2147483647 >> >> That is -1, which indicates some module refcount woes. >> >> I definitely can't see that with the mainline on my machines. > > It might be a regression in -stable only, b/c in 3,10.2 I did not > observed it. > > Srivatsa, > > by any chance - could the revert of the cpufreq patches have something > to do with that ? > Hmmm? Those reverts didn't touch anything related to module refcounts.. So I don't think they have anything to do with this. Also, is the issue related to suspend/resume at all? (Sorry, I don't have your original email, so I'm not sure what the exact issue is). Regards, Srivatsa S. Bhat