[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#694012: Bug#694012: xen-hypervisor-4.1-amd64: powernow-k8: transition frequency failed [filling the syslog]

[Bastian Blank]

Control: reassign -1 src:linux 3.2.32-1
Control: severity -1 important

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:28:08AM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> after an upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy I see about ten of these per
> second filling my system log (about 8 MB/h):
> Nov 23 00:15:37 acromantula kernel: [  462.544193] powernow-k8: fid trans failed, fid 0x2, curr 0x0
> Nov 23 00:15:37 acromantula kernel: [  462.546919] powernow-k8: transition frequency failed
> This seems to be a known upstream issue, see
> http://bugzilla.xen.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1789

This is a bug in the kernel. The hypervisor correctly denies access to
the hardware.

Bastian

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