[Bug 8075] powernow-k8: MP systems not supported by PSB BIOS structure

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------- Comment #23 from len.brown@intel.com  2008-01-10 18:30 -------
re-categorizing to ACPI/Power-Processor
from Power-Management/cpufreq


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------- Comment #22 from jim@jimbocorp.uklinux.net  2007-10-06 13:05 -------
I've now had this same problem. I've contact my motherboard manufacturer (Asus)
and they have totally failed to help.

Clearly it is a BIOS problem and the correct solution is for the BIOS to be
fixed. I'm still e-mailing Asus but I'm not hopeful.

I'm wondering if there's some way to fake the data. This would have to be done
by hard-coding the values into the module. This blatantly sucks but I can't see
any other way. This is also inappropriate for the mainline kernel as it's the
Wrong Way to do it.


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------- Comment #21 from mark.langsdorf@amd.com  2007-07-17 08:20 -------
If you have the ACPI Processor module loaded and it's still failing, then your
BIOS does not report the _PSS objects in a way that Linux understands.  Update
your BIOS.


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------- Comment #19 from davemilter@gmail.com  2007-07-17 00:41 -------
Hi guys, I had the same issue here, but kernel 2.6.22:
# uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.22-gentoo #5 SMP Mon Jul 16 15:08:03 MSD 2007 i686 AMD
Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
# modprobe powernow-k8
FATAL: Error inserting powernow_k8
(/lib/modules/2.6.22-gentoo/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.ko):
No such device

# dmesg | tail -n 3
powernow-k8: Found 2 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ processors
(version 2.00.00)
powernow-k8: MP systems not supported by PSB BIOS structure
powernow-k8: MP systems not supported by PSB BIOS structure


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------- Comment #18 from yann@kierun.org  2007-06-21 00:43 -------
It worked for me.  Actually, fedora 7 installed on my machine so it's fine. 

Thanks guys.


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------- Comment #17 from protasnb@gmail.com  2007-06-20 17:05 -------
Does this patch need more testing? Yann, does it resolve your problem?
Thanks.


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------- Additional Comments From j_kernel@hoblitt.com  2007-05-15 18:26 -------
I believe that I reported the same issue to the Gentoo bug tracker:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178585

and I've just sent a possible 1 line Kconfig fix to LKML:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/15/352

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------- Additional Comments From yann@kierun.org  2007-03-16 01:17 -------
Mark, 

I do not think so.  I have no running system and all installers I have (Gentoo,
Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu and OpenSuse) do not have much option in what to do.  I
can pass some arguments to the default kernel but that's it.  

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------- Additional Comments From mark.langsdorf@amd.com  2007-03-15 13:33 -------
Is there a way to force the APCI processor module to load before the powernow_k8
module on your systems?  The failure of the ACPI processor module to load is
what is causing PowerNow! to fail.

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------- Additional Comments From yann@kierun.org  2007-03-15 13:02 -------
All the pictures I've just uploaded are from a Fedor Core 6 install DVD.  There
are two trace, the first is from the default kernel, the second from booting
with "linux text apci=off smp=off" to remove as many things as possible. 
Gentoo, Open Suse and Ubuntu all kernel dump as well.  If you really want and it
would help, I can take pictures of all of them. 

The system I am running is as follows:
 AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5000+
 MSI K9A Platinum Crossfire (Socket AM2)
 OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC2-6400 Dual Channel Platinu
 Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 Pro ULTIMATE SILENT

I'd love to be able to compile a 2.6.21 kernel (or any other) but I cannot
install Linux so do not have access to gcc or anything like that. 

Any help would be much appreciated.  

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Final part of the kernel trace.

Final part of the kernel apci=off trace.

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------- Additional Comments From yann@kierun.org  2007-03-15 12:57 -------
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------- Additional Comments From yann@kierun.org  2007-03-15 12:56 -------
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Just before crash with apci=off option

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------- Additional Comments From yann@kierun.org  2007-03-15 12:55 -------
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Actual kernel diump trace

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This is just before the kernel crash. 

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------- Additional Comments From trenn@suse.de  2007-03-14 16:26 -------
Can you pls attach acpidump output (best check for BIOS updates before and 
update, after doing that send acpidump output).

Yann: The kernel panics.
Why do you think this is related?
Can you give us a bit more details about the panic (last function accessed, 
best would be the whole backtrace of last processed functions).


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------- Additional Comments From yann@kierun.org  2007-03-14 14:04 -------
I have the same problem booting from CD (Gentoo, Ubuntu and Fedora core) iwth my
dual AMD64 X2.  Setting the kernel to acpi=off does not work either.  The kernel
panics.

I'm happy to test a new kernel but since I do not have a Linux install, it maybe
hard.  Still, please let me know (yann-AT-kierun-org) if I can test this. 

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------- Additional Comments From mark.langsdorf@amd.com  2007-03-07 09:07 -------
Again, this message happens when Linux can't find or decode the _PSS objects. 
Make sure you have the ACPI processor module enabled and loaded before enabling
powernow-k8

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------- Additional Comments From tmcken@us.ibm.com  2007-03-07 08:56 -------
seeing a very similar message with kernel 2.6.18-8 on a dual AMDx86

PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:20000@f8000000 for 0000:09:00.0
powernow-k8: MP systems not supported by PSB BIOS structure
powernow-k8: MP systems not supported by PSB BIOS structure


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------- Additional Comments From mark.langsdorf@amd.com  2007-02-26 09:35 -------
It's an ACPI bug, not a PowerNow! bug.

The PowerNow! driver calls acpi_processor_register_performance().  If that
fails, it tries to get the pstate data from the PSB BIOS structure.  Multicore
and Multiprocessor systems are not supported by the PSB BIOS structure, so the
driver has no pstate data and fails to instantiate.

If 2.6.18 worked, there is a regression in acpi_processor_register_performance()
in 2.6.20.

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------- Additional Comments From davej@codemonkey.org.uk  2007-02-25 22:29 -------
please attach the output of grep POWERNOW .config

also, the powernow parts of the dmesg from the working kernel might be useful.

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------- Additional Comments From len.brown@intel.com  2007-02-25 22:07 -------
appears to be powernow-k8 specific, not ACPI specific.

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