Bug 171168 - powernow-k8 module will not unload without reboot
Summary: powernow-k8 module will not unload without reboot
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Dave Jones
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-10-19 00:23 UTC by Andrew J. Gristina
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:22 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-12-07 18:38:48 UTC
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Description Andrew J. Gristina 2005-10-19 00:23:06 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc3 Firefox/1.0.7

Description of problem:
Fedora Core 3:

2.6.9 kernel will allow you to modprobe -r powernow-k8.  This allows you to stop the cpuspeed fluctuation without reboot.


after upgrade to 2.6.12-1.1378_FC3 cannot modprobe -r powernow-k8.  Can't stop cpuspeed without reboot.

Doesn't matter if cpuspeed service is stopped or started.

root@test:~$ modprobe -r powernow-k8
FATAL: Module powernow_k8 is in use.



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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Upgrade to 2.6.12-1.1378 kernel (smp or single proc) from 2.6.9
2. try to unload powernow-k8
3. get Fatal error. 


  

Actual Results:  root@test:~$ modprobe -r powernow-k8
FATAL: Module powernow_k8 is in use.

Expected Results:  unload the module and cpuspeed and processor speed fluctionation stop.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Dave Jones 2005-12-07 18:38:48 UTC
you can stop cpuspeed fluctuation by running 'service cpuspeed stop'


Comment 2 Andrew J. Gristina 2005-12-07 19:12:26 UTC
yes, but it doesn't actually stop until reboot on the AMD hardware I've tried.

Continue to monitor the cpuspeed and it will fluctuate as will powerdraw.



Comment 3 Andrew J. Gristina 2005-12-07 19:14:10 UTC
I'll be trying FC5 on the same hardware soon, but as far as I can tell reboot or
unloading the powernow module is the only way to make the cpuspeed stop making
the cpu cycles and powerdraw fluctuate.


Comment 4 Dave Jones 2005-12-07 19:44:25 UTC
it should stop instantly when you shutdown the cpuspeed module.

do you have the cpufreq_ondemand module loaded ? That's the only other thing
that will adjust CPU speed.




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