linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] cpupower : Fix cpupower working when cpu0 is offline

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Message-ID: <2289b9f8-d533-3fa4-1524-22613dcc520a@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 15 Nov 2017 08:22:09 -0700
From:   Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>
To:     Abhishek Goel <huntbag@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, trenn@...e.com,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] cpupower : Fix cpupower working when cpu0 is offline

On 11/15/2017 01:40 AM, Abhishek Goel wrote:
> cpuidle_monitor used to assume that cpu0 is always online which is not
> a valid assumption on POWER machines. This patch fixes this by getting
> the cpu on which the current thread is running, instead of always using
> cpu0 for monitoring which may not be online.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Abhishek Goel <huntbag@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  tools/power/cpupower/utils/idle_monitor/cpuidle_sysfs.c | 9 ++++++---
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 

Thanks. I will queue this for 4.15-rc2

-- SHuah