From: Jean-Christophe DUBOIS Previous patch changed based on Christian Krafft's comment. On some legacy SLOF tree the generic code is unable to ioremap some Cell BE registers. Therefore the "generic" functions are returning a NULL pointer, triggering a crash on such platforms. Let's handle this more gracefully. Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe DUBOIS Acked-by: Christian Kraff Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Index: linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/cbe_cpufreq.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/cbe_cpufreq.c +++ linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/cbe_cpufreq.c @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include "cbe_regs.h" #include "cbe_cpufreq.h" static DEFINE_MUTEX(cbe_switch_mutex); @@ -78,6 +79,15 @@ static int cbe_cpufreq_cpu_init(struct c pr_debug("init cpufreq on CPU %d\n", policy->cpu); + /* + * Let's check we can actually get to the CELL regs + */ + if (!cbe_get_cpu_pmd_regs(policy->cpu) || + !cbe_get_cpu_mic_tm_regs(policy->cpu)) { + pr_info("invalid CBE regs pointers for cpufreq\n"); + return -EINVAL; + } + max_freqp = of_get_property(cpu, "clock-frequency", NULL); of_node_put(cpu); --