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Date:	Fri, 5 Apr 2013 10:49:14 +0530
From:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:	dirk.brandewie@...il.com, Adam Williamson <awilliam@...hat.com>,
	Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@...il.com>
Cc:	rjw@...k.pl, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cpufreq@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpufreq/intel_pstate: Set timer timeout correctly

On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:05 PM,  <dirk.brandewie@...il.com> wrote:
> From: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@...il.com>
>
> The current calculation of the delay time is wrong and a cut and paste
> error from a previous experimental driver.  This can result in the
> timeout being set to jiffies + 1 which setup the driver to race with
> it's self if the apic timer interrupt happen at just the right time.
>
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=920289
>
> Reported-by: Adam Williamson <awilliam@...hat.com>
> Reported-by: Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@...il.com>
>
> Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c |    1 -
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Looks fine, but I would like to see a Tested-by from Adam/Parag
as they haven't said anything about this patch (even in bugzilla).
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