Subject: Re: [BUG] Something goes wrong with timer statistics.
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: iank@bredband.net, Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 00:42:12 +0200
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On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 15:37 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Ian Kumlien <iank@bredband.net>
> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 23:38:48 +0200
> 
> > As the daystar sets, i try to play some with my new would be
> > firewall/server, but since this will be running for quite some time i
> > have been experimenting with powertop to find out what i can do to limit
> > it's power usage.
> > 
> > But, if i run powertop for too long or a few times to many... this
> > happens:
> > http://pomac.netswarm.net/pics/kernel_panic.jpg
> > 
> > If i don't run powertop, it is rock solid... Compiling for hours,
> > running memtest for hours etc etc... 
> 
> I see this same exact problem on sparc64.

100% reproducible ?

	tglx


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