It appears that when powernow-k8 finds that

    No compatible ACPI _PSS objects found.

 and suggests

    Try again with latest BIOS.

 it fails the module load, but does not unregister the cpu_notifier that was
 registered in powernowk8_init

 This ends up leaving freed memory on the cpu notifier list for some other
 poor module (e.g. md/raid5) to come along and trip over.

 The following might be a partial fix, but I suspect there is probably other
 clean-up that is needed.

 ( https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=655215 has full dmesg traces).
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>