Bug 6782

Summary:	ACPI Exception (acpi_processor-0272): AE_BAD_PARAMETER, Invalid _PSS data [20060623]
Product:	ACPI	Reporter:	Ralf Hildebrandt (ralf.hildebrandt)
Component:	Config-Processors	Assignee:	Zhang Rui (rui.zhang)
Status:	CLOSED PATCH_ALREADY_AVAILABLE
Severity:	normal	CC:	acpi-bugzilla
Priority:	P2
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.17-mm5	Subsystem:
Regression:	---	Bisected commit-id:
Attachments:	acpidump output from pmtools-20051111 patch vs 2.6.16 from SuSE bug report above

Description Ralf Hildebrandt 2006-07-01 12:32:01 UTC

Most recent kernel where this bug did not occur:
Distribution: debian/unstable
Hardware Environment: AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-30 processors 
(version 2.00.00)
Software Environment:
Problem Description:

Jul  1 19:54:29 knarzkiste kernel: powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Turion(tm) 64 
Mobile Technology ML-30 processors (version 2.00.00)
Jul  1 19:54:29 knarzkiste kernel: ACPI: Invalid package argument
Jul  1 19:54:29 knarzkiste kernel: ACPI Exception (acpi_processor-0272): 
AE_BAD_PARAMETER, Invalid _PSS data [20060623]
Jul  1 19:54:29 knarzkiste kernel: powernow-k8:    0 : fid 0x0 (800 MHz), vid 
0x12
Jul  1 19:54:29 knarzkiste kernel: powernow-k8:    1 : fid 0x8 (1600 MHz), vid 
0x4
Jul  1 19:54:29 knarzkiste kernel: powernow-k8: ph2 null fid transition 0x8

Steps to reproduce:

Comment 1 Ralf Hildebrandt 2006-07-01 12:36:48 UTC

Created attachment 8472 [details]
acpidump output from pmtools-20051111

I send this as requested on the LKML.

Comment 2 Len Brown 2006-08-02 18:38:51 UTC

fix for this should be in ACPICA 20060721 --  it is a microsoft
compatibility fix...

will attach a test patch here.

Comment 3 Thomas Renninger 2006-09-24 06:28:31 UTC

This is the same problem as described in:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=189488

There is a patch added against 2.6.16 there in the end (It's from Bob, so this 
is probably how it will end in or already is in mainline).
This is not a compatibility patch, but was a bug in the ACPICA code as the 
package elements field was ignored.

Comment 4 Vladimir G. Ivanovic 2006-10-31 01:38:15 UTC

The patch is not available to mere mortals. (Novell denies access, even after
creating an account.) Please post the patch here.

Comment 5 Len Brown 2007-03-08 00:25:14 UTC

Created attachment 10650 [details]
patch vs 2.6.16 from SuSE bug report above

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Comment 6 Len Brown 2007-03-08 00:26:21 UTC

this patch, 8f9337c88335846b01801b1047a4caf10527a320
to drivers/acpi/dispatcher/dsobject.c
shipped in Linux-2.6.21-rc1.

Please re-open if you still see this issue in a release after that.