Fedora Core 3 x86_64 cpuspeed problems on Athlon 3000+ ?

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Jim Cox wrote:

>I'm experiencing occasional errors like the following which seem to be
>related to cpuspeed (using 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 RPM-installed kernel).
>
>Basic questions are does cpuspeed do anything for an Athlon 3000+
>chip, can it safely be disabled, and if so how?
>
>Thanks in advance for any help/info/pointers.
>
>Representative excerpt from /var/log/messages is:
>Jan 23 23:04:10 sarah kernel: cpuspeed: Corrupted page table at
>address 38ca4bd350
>Jan 23 23:04:10 sarah kernel: PML4 3b7a7067 PGD 3b757067 PMD 3b759067
>PTE 3003f0a2025
>Jan 23 23:04:10 sarah kernel: Bad pagetable: 001d [1]
>Jan 23 23:04:10 sarah kernel: CPU 0
>Jan 23 23:04:10 sarah kernel: Modules linked in: radeon parport_pc lp
>parport autofs4 i2c_dev i2c_core sunrpc pcmcia yenta_socket
>pcmcia_core md5 ipv6 dm_mod video button battery ac ohci_hcd ehci_hcd
>snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm
>snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc 8139too mii floppy ext3 jbd
>sata_nv libata sd_mod scsi_mod
>Jan 23 23:04:10 sarah kernel: Pid: 3073, comm: cpuspeed Not tainted
>2.6.10-1.741_FC3
>Jan 23 23:04:10 sarah kernel: RIP: 0033:[<00000038ca4bd350>]
>[<00000038ca4bd350>]
>Jan 23 23:04:10 sarah kernel: RSP: 002b:0000007fbffff838  EFLAGS: 00010202
>Jan 23 23:04:10 sarah kernel: RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX:
>00000000001b7740 RCX: 0000000000505260
>Jan 23 23:04:10 sarah kernel: RDX: 0000000000000fbf RSI:
>0000000000505030 RDI: 0000000000002710
>Jan 23 23:04:10 sarah kernel: RBP: 0000000000000001 R08:
>0000000000020da0 R09: 0000000000000000
>Jan 23 23:04:10 sarah kernel: R10: 0000000000000001 R11:
>0000000000020fe1 R12: 0000000000000001
>Jan 23 23:04:10 sarah kernel: R13: 0000000000000001 R14:
>0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
>Jan 23 23:04:10 sarah kernel: FS:  0000002a95577b00(0000)
>GS:ffffffff804f3600(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>Jan 23 23:04:10 sarah kernel: CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
>Jan 23 23:04:10 sarah kernel: CR2: 00000038ca4bd350 CR3:
>0000000000101000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
>Jan 23 23:04:10 sarah kernel: Process cpuspeed (pid: 3073, threadinfo
>000001003ad38000, task 000001003da41030)
>Jan 23 23:04:10 sarah kernel:
>Jan 23 23:04:10 sarah kernel: RIP [<00000038ca4bd350>] RSP <0000007fbffff838>
>Jan 23 23:04:10 sarah kernel:  <3>swap_free: Bad swap offset entry 4800000000
>Jan 23 23:04:10 sarah kernel: swap_free: Bad swap offset entry 7500000000
>Jan 23 23:04:10 sarah kernel: swap_free: Bad swap offset entry 2500000000
>Jan 23 23:04:10 sarah kernel: swap_free: Bad swap offset entry 100000000
>Jan 23 23:04:10 sarah kernel: swap_free: Bad swap offset entry 8000000000
>
>  
>
Is this on a Laptop computer? If not, you can simply start 
system-cofnig-services and disable the service for runlevels 3, 4 and 5; 
you can stop it from there too.