RE: [patch-mm 00/25] High resolution timer updates and x86_64 support - V2

[Pallipadi, Venkatesh]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx] 
>Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 2:50 PM
>To: Pallipadi, Venkatesh
>Cc: Thomas Gleixner; LKML; Andrew Morton; Ingo Molnar; Andi 
>Kleen; Chris Wright; Arjan van de Ven
>Subject: Re: [patch-mm 00/25] High resolution timer updates 
>and x86_64 support - V2
>
>On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:24:33 PDT, "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" said:
>
>> >state2/time: -159524787
>> >state2/usage: 15007443
>> >
>> 
>> The problem is powertop only understands 
>/proc/acpi/processor/CPU*/power
>> for
>> and not /sys..cpuidle for the moment.
>> 
>> I had a patch in recent cpuidle fixes series that makes 
>/proc interface
>> active
>> again with cpuidle which should correct this. Those patches 
>are not in
>> rc4-mm2-hrt4, but are there in latest rc4-hrt and rc5-hrt series.
>
>OK, so I've got a 32/64 bug that isn't the cause of *this* 
>issue because
>powertop isn't looking at the broken value.
>

Yes. The output does indicate a bug in cpuidle /sysfs part. Will look at
sysfs output of cpuidle and fix those issues soon.

Thanks,
Venki
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