linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cpufreq/intel_pstate: Set timer timeout correctly

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Date:	Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:42:57 -0700
From:	Adam Williamson <awilliam@...hat.com>
To:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
CC:	dirk.brandewie@...il.com, Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@...il.com>,
	rjw@...k.pl, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cpufreq@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpufreq/intel_pstate: Set timer timeout correctly

On 04/04/13 10:19 PM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> 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).

I'll try. Note the bug is not reliably reproducible, all I can really do 
is run for a day or two and see if it crashes.
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