Bug 578323 - RHEL5.5: Device 'power_meter0' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed.
Summary: RHEL5.5: Device 'power_meter0' does not have a release() function, it is brok...
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 576246
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 5.5
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: John Feeney
QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-03-30 21:21 UTC by guilherme m. schroeder
Modified: 2013-01-10 07:22 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-04-05 17:48:41 UTC
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Description guilherme m. schroeder 2010-03-30 21:21:03 UTC 
Created attachment 403602 [details]
dmesg

Description of problem:

On all Dell PowerEdge R610 servers running RedHat 5.5 i got this messages on dmesg:

ACPI Exception (evregion-0424): AE_SUPPORT, Returned by Handler for [DataTable] [20060707]
ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PMI0._GHL] (Node ffff81034005d830), AE_SUPPORT
ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PMI0._PMC] (Node ffff81034005d870), AE_SUPPORT
ACPI Exception (power_meter-0759): AE_SUPPORT, Evaluating _PMC [20060707]
Device 'power_meter0' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed.
BUG: warning at drivers/base/core.c:101/device_release() (Not tainted)

Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff801519ef>] kobject_cleanup+0x53/0x7e
 [<ffffffff80151a1a>] kobject_release+0x0/0x9
 [<ffffffff80035748>] kref_put+0x6f/0x7a
 [<ffffffff882fe0ed>] :power_meter:acpi_power_meter_add+0x158/0x16f
 [<ffffffff801a115e>] acpi_bus_driver_init+0x30/0x57
 [<ffffffff801a237c>] acpi_bus_register_driver+0x95/0xd4
 [<ffffffff881d4032>] :power_meter:acpi_power_meter_init+0x25/0x34
 [<ffffffff800a7fe0>] sys_init_module+0xaf/0x1f2
 [<ffffffff8005e116>] system_call+0x7e/0x83

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

kernel-2.6.18-194.el5

How reproducible:

100% on Dell PowerEdge R610 servers

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Boot the machine with 5.5 kernel or Install/Update RedHat 5.5
  
Actual results:

Expected results:

No Call Trace messages

Additional info:

The machine are pre-production servers and seems to be working fine. Even cpuspeed is reducing the cpu speed, so i think it's OK, but these messages are not normal. dmesg attached.
Comment 1 Matthew Garrett 2010-04-05 17:48:41 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 576246 ***
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