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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] cpuidle: fix sysfs output for power_usage
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On Monday, December 17, 2012 10:46:07 AM Sivaram Nair wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 08:56:45AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Monday, December 17, 2012 09:38:15 AM Sivaram Nair wrote:
> > > On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 01:03:02AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > On Friday, December 14, 2012 03:17:37 PM Sivaram Nair wrote:
> > > > > cpuidle_state->power_usage is signed; so change the corresponding sysfs
> > > > > ops to output signed value instead of unsigned.
> > > >
> > > > What's actually wrong with printing it as an unsigned int?
> > >
> > > power_usage could have negative values (for example cpuidle/driver.c
> > > inits this value to -1, -2 etc. when drv->power_specified is not set) and
> > > these shows up badly in the sysfs output.
> >
> > Does "badly" mean "as big positive numbers"?
>
> Yes (sorry for not being clearer).
>
> >
> > Should we actually print them at all in those case? Perhaps it'll be better to
> > make the file appear empty then?
>
> May be, but why is power_usage signed in the first place?

Please read the comment in driver.c:set_power_states() for the answer. :-)

> I also noticed
> Daniel Lezcano's patches that reduces the scope of this variable. So,
> perhaps we can just ignore this change.

OK

Rafael


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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.


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