Re: [PATCH] cpupower: Implement powercap enabled setters

From: Shuah Khan

Date: Mon May 11 2026 - 17:01:42 EST


On 5/8/26 16:35, Mateusz Jaśkiewicz wrote:
powercap_set_enabled() and powercap_zone_set_enabled() are part of the
public libcpupower API, but both currently return success without
updating sysfs.

Write the requested value to the matching enabled attribute so callers
can actually enable or disable the powercap control type or zone, and
report write failures back to the caller.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Jaśkiewicz <jaskiewiczteo@xxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/power/cpupower/lib/powercap.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/power/cpupower/lib/powercap.c b/tools/power/cpupower/lib/powercap.c
index 94a0c69e5..6d8b83428 100644
--- a/tools/power/cpupower/lib/powercap.c
+++ b/tools/power/cpupower/lib/powercap.c
@@ -70,6 +70,27 @@ static int sysfs_get_enabled(char *path, int *mode)
return ret;
}
+static int sysfs_set_enabled(const char *path, int mode)
+{
+ char yes_no;
+ int fd;
+ ssize_t ret;
+
+ if (mode != 0 && mode != 1)
+ return -1;

The default is enabled. You could check the current value
and then do a write.

+
+ yes_no = mode ? '1' : '0';
+ fd = open(path, O_WRONLY);
+ if (-1 == fd)

I prefer fd == value convention. Also checking fd < 0 is
better than == -1 and printing error message calling perror()



+ return -1;
+ ret = write(fd, &yes_no, 1);
+ if (ret != 1) {


+ close(fd);
+ return -1;
+ }
+ return close(fd);
+}
+
int powercap_get_enabled(int *mode)
{
char path[SYSFS_PATH_MAX] = PATH_TO_POWERCAP "/intel-rapl/enabled";
@@ -77,17 +98,13 @@ int powercap_get_enabled(int *mode)
return sysfs_get_enabled(path, mode);
}
-/*
- * TODO: implement function. Returns dummy 0 for now.
- */
int powercap_set_enabled(int mode)
{
- return 0;
+ return sysfs_set_enabled(PATH_TO_RAPL "/enabled", mode);
}
-
/*
* Hardcoded, because rapl is the only powercap implementation
-- * this needs to get more generic if more powercap implementations
+ * this needs to get more generic if more powercap implementations
* should show up
*/
int powercap_get_driver(char *driver, int buflen)
@@ -180,8 +197,18 @@ int powercap_zone_get_enabled(struct powercap_zone *zone, int *mode)
int powercap_zone_set_enabled(struct powercap_zone *zone, int mode)
{
- /* To be done if needed */
- return 0;
+ char path[SYSFS_PATH_MAX];
+ int ret;
+
+ if (!zone)
+ return -1;
+
+ ret = snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "%s/%s/enabled",
+ PATH_TO_POWERCAP, zone->sys_name);
+ if (ret < 0 || ret >= (int)sizeof(path))

Drop the typecast

+ return -1;
+
+ return sysfs_set_enabled(path, mode);
}

thanks,
-- Shuah