Oops in sched_mc_power_savings_store

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Thu Jul 24 2008 - 07:51:50 EST



I have no idea how you guys intended this to work, but here's the
debugging work I've done so far.

[ 89.210171] Call Trace:
[ 89.210182] [<c011c0b3>] ? sched_mc_power_savings_store+0x0/0x4a
[ 89.210198] [<c02908c0>] ? sysdev_class_store+0x38/0x40
[ 89.210213] [<c01a0b51>] ? sysfs_write_file+0xb9/0xe4

sched_mc_power_savings_store isn't a class attribute, it's a plain
attribute. So the prototypes are different. This is why we try to load
from address 2 -- it's actually the length parameter.

I don't know how our typing system let this one through. I don't know if
you want to fix this by adding an extra argument to the class_attribute
show and store methods. I don't know if sched_mc_power_savings_store
was intended to be a class attribute or not.

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