https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=655215
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=655215#c5
--- Comment #5 from Neil Brown 2010-11-24 00:17:04 UTC ---
Yes, it helps.
The problem is the powernow-k8 module.
It registers a cpu notifier before printing int "Firmware Bug" message,
and then fails, but doesn't clean up properly.
So the cpu notifier is still registered, but the memory holding it
gets used for something else.
You can easily check this by removing (or moving to somewhere safe) the
powernow-k8.ko module.
e.g. mv /lib/modules/2.6.3*/kernel/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.ko
/root
or something like that.
Then reboot.
There is probably a way to blacklist this module in /etc/modprobe.d
Possibly
echo blacklist powernow-k8 > /etc/modprobe.d/no-powernow.conf
would do it, but I'm not certain.
I'll see what I can discover about fixing the kernel.
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