linux-kernel - Re: Fix quilt merge error in acpi-cpufreq.c

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Date:	Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:05:44 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Fix quilt merge error in acpi-cpufreq.c


* Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> wrote:

> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/linus/1c98aa7424ff163637d8321674ec58dee28152d4
> Commit:     1c98aa7424ff163637d8321674ec58dee28152d4
> Parent:     2e1c63b7ed36532b68f0eddd6a184d7ba1013b89
> Author:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> AuthorDate: Mon Apr 13 18:09:20 2009 -0700
> Committer:  Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> CommitDate: Mon Apr 13 18:09:20 2009 -0700
> 
>     Fix quilt merge error in acpi-cpufreq.c
>     
>     We ended up incorrectly using '&cur' instead of '&readin' in the
>     work_on_cpu() -> smp_call_function_single() transformation in commit
>     01599fca6758d2cd133e78f87426fc851c9ea725 ("cpufreq: use
>     smp_call_function_[single|many]() in acpi-cpufreq.c").
>     
>     Andrew explains:
>      "OK, the acpi tree went and had conflicting changes merged into it after
>       I'd written the patch and it appears that I incorrectly reverted part
>       of 18b2646fe3babeb40b34a0c1751e0bf5adfdc64c while fixing the resulting
>       rejects.
>     
>       Switching it to `readin' looks correct."
>     
>     Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
>     Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
> index 3e3cd3d..837c2c4 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
> @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ static unsigned int get_measured_perf(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
>  	unsigned int perf_percent;
>  	unsigned int retval;
>  
> -	if (smp_call_function_single(cpu, read_measured_perf_ctrs, &cur, 1))
> +	if (smp_call_function_single(cpu, read_measured_perf_ctrs, &readin, 1))
>  		return 0;

Ah, this might explain a few weird smp_processor_id() runtime 
warnings i got a few hours ago in that area of code (but didnt track 
it down at that time) when i updated to at around ~80a04d3.

(Never noticed the build warning - there's still too many of them.)

	Ingo
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