linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] perf/x86/rapl: Enable Baytrail/Braswell RAPL support

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Date:   Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:41:50 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Harry Pan <harry.pan@...el.com>
cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, gs0622@...il.com,
        mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com, x86@...nel.org,
        peterz@...radead.org, bp@...en8.de,
        srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] perf/x86/rapl: Enable Baytrail/Braswell RAPL
 support

On Sun, 11 Sep 2016, Harry Pan wrote:
> This patch also enables multiple quirks.

This patch adds a single quirk for Baytrail. 

Please stop sending out patches 5 seconds after a review. Take your time
and fixup stuff proper.

> +static void rapl_byt_quirk(void)
> +{
> +	int i;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Some Atom processors (BYT/BSW) have 2^ESU microjoules
> +	 * increment, refer to Software Developers' Manual, Vol. 3C,
> +	 * Order No. 325384, Table 35-8 of MSR_RAPL_POWER_UNIT.
> +	 *
> +	 * TODO: In order to fit BYT/BSW quirk model, here remind
> +	 *	 this generates timer rate in 80ms; by default
> +	 *	 ESU of BYT/BSW is 5, so it leads (1000/200)*2^4.

This sentence is not a sentence and I can't make any sense of it at
all.

What's the TODO here? And why is that TODO not addressed in this patch?

Thanks,

	tglx