Hello all.
I have a Transmeta TM5800 in my laptop which some time ago stopped being
able to do cpufreq stuff (/sys/devices/system/cpu/ stopped having the
relevant files in it). I recently got time to look into the issue and
believe I have found the relevant issue:
in arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c, identify_cpu contains:
if (this_cpu->c_identify)
this_cpu->c_identify(c);
else
generic_identify(c);
At this point in the code, at least as far as I am able to tell, this_cpu
is always default_cpu, which lacks an ->c_identify memeber, and as such,
generic_identify is always called. That is correct behavior, I think...
but a side effect of generic_identify is to set this_cpu. So I believe
the correct fix is to make the flow of execution look like this:
generic_identify(c);
if (this_cpu->c_identify)
this_cpu->c_identify(c);
The attached patch does that and adds some printk's that I seem to recall
were in the kernel some time ago but are no longer.
Anyway, while this may not be the correct fix, it does fix my longrun
issues, so I believe it to be correct, at least on uniprocessor systems.
This bug probably has not bitten anybody except those people with CPUs
that have CPUID bits beyond the first 64.
Keep up the good work!
--nwf;