Re: [BUG -tip] unable to handle kernel paging request

From: Luis Henriques
Date: Mon Apr 27 2009 - 12:58:48 EST


On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:43:28AM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> > I believe my problem has finally been solved by commit
> > 888d256e9c565cb61505bd218eb37c81fe77a325 in kvm git tree. Basically, the kvm
> > notifier for the cpufreq was not being unregistered when kvm module was
> > unloaded and, thus, when notifier_call_chain invoked the handler for the kvm,
> > there was a NULL pointer there.
> >
> > Does this make sense to everybody?
>
> If your system unloads the kvm modules on shutdown/reboot: yes, would
> make sense.

Yes, I am using kvm modules and these modules are indeed unloaded on shutdown.
So, I believe this is what caused the bug I reported -- Although I initially
though it was related with the powernow-k8 module.

Regards,
--
Luis Henriques
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