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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:01:37 -0400
From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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       davej@redhat.com
Subject: Re: cpufreq stops working after a while
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote:
..
>> I use speedstep-centrino with it, and after boot all is usually okay.
>> But after a few hours of operation, it stops shifting to the highest frequency
>> even under continuous 100% load (or not).  Eventually it gets stuck at 600Mhz
>> and stays there until I reboot.
..
>> WHY?
> 
> cpufreq seems to have relatively frequent problems.
> 
>>  And how can I fix it?
> 
> You could start by telling us which kernel versions are affected ;)

Heh.  2.6.17.6 and 2.6.18-rc3-git4 are the two kernels I have for it,
and both exhibit the problem.

Dave Jones wrote:
>boot with cpufreq.debug=7, and capture dmesg output after it fails

I'll reboot with the debug options and see..

Cheers
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