Hi,
I've just tried 2.6.0-test1 on my laptop. I get ACPI oopses when I
change the CPU frequency through the ACPI proc interface:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
00000240
printing eip:
c0117243
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<c0117243>] Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010206
EIP is at acpi_processor_write_performance+0x173/0x200
eax: 00000230 ebx: cb77bb80 ecx: 01000000 edx: 00000200
esi: 00000001 edi: cccbfed4 ebp: 00000001 esp: cccbfeb0
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process autospeedstep (pid: 1231, threadinfo=cccbe000 task=cdc9a700)
Stack: cccbfed4 01000000 00000000 00000001 00000000 01000000 c02b1b00
c02ae491
ce197660 01000000 00000001 c014bbde ce197660 cdd6e820 ced63060
cccdd400
00000001 00000060 cccbff00 ce197660 ce197680 cdc9a700 40018000
c011cf5c
Call Trace:
[<c014bbde>] handle_mm_fault+0xee/0x160
[<c011cf5c>] do_page_fault+0x13c/0x477
[<c014d448>] do_mmap_pgoff+0x5e8/0x710
[<c015988e>] vfs_write+0xbe/0x130
[<c01599b2>] sys_write+0x42/0x70
[<c010af7d>] sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x71
Code: 8b 48 10 89 3c 24 b8 e8 03 00 00 f7 e1 89 44 24 38 e8 17 57
[ACPI Debug] String: _PSR
[ACPI Debug] String: _PSR
[ACPI Debug] String: _PSR
[ACPI Debug] String: _PSR
[ACPI Debug] String: _PSR
[ACPI Debug] String: _PSR
[ACPI Debug] String: _PSR
[ACPI Debug] String: _PSR
I can provide more info if needed.
Cheers,
Jurgen