linux-kernel - Re: turbostat-17.06.23 floating point exception

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Date:   Fri, 12 Oct 2018 19:03:41 -0400
From:   Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
To:     solio.sarabia@...el.com
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Brown, Len" <len.brown@...el.com>, shiny.sebastian@...el.com
Subject: Re: turbostat-17.06.23 floating point exception

> Why would the cpu topology report 0 cpus?  I added a debug entry to
> cpu_usage_stat and /proc/stat showed it as an extra column.  Then
> fscanf parsing in for_all_cpus() failed, causing the SIGFPE.
>
> This is not an issue. Thanks.

Yes, it is true that turbostat doesn't check for systems with 0 cpus.
I'm curious how you provoked the kernel to claim that.  If it is
something others might do, we can have check for it and gracefully
exit.

thanks,
-Len




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Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center