linux-kernel - [PATCH for 4.9 39/39] tools/power turbostat: bugfix: GFXMHz column not changing

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Date:   Mon, 18 Sep 2017 00:40:36 +0000
From:   "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
To:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
        "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
Subject: [PATCH for 4.9 39/39] tools/power turbostat: bugfix: GFXMHz column
 not changing

From: Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>

[ Upstream commit 22048c5485503749754b3b5daf9d99ef89fcacdc ]

turbostat displays a GFXMHz column, which comes from reading
/sys/class/graphics/fb0/device/drm/card0/gt_cur_freq_mhz

But GFXMHz was not changing, even when a manual
cat /sys/class/graphics/fb0/device/drm/card0/gt_cur_freq_mhz
showed a new value.

It turns out that a rewind() on the open file is not sufficient,
fflush() (or a close/open) is needed to read fresh values.

Reported-by: Yaroslav Isakov <yaroslav.isakov@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
---
 tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c b/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c
index 3e199b508a96..9664b1ff4285 100644
--- a/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c
+++ b/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c
@@ -2003,8 +2003,10 @@ int snapshot_gfx_mhz(void)
 
 	if (fp == NULL)
 		fp = fopen_or_die("/sys/class/graphics/fb0/device/drm/card0/gt_cur_freq_mhz", "r");
-	else
+	else {
 		rewind(fp);
+		fflush(fp);
+	}
 
 	retval = fscanf(fp, "%d", &gfx_cur_mhz);
 	if (retval != 1)
-- 
2.11.0