Re: [PATCH] Re: [2.5.39] (3/5) CPUfreq i386 drivers

[Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>]

On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 03:56:48PM -0400, Gerald Britton wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 12:10:18PM +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> > I think I found the problem: it should be GFP_ATOMIC and not GFP_KERNEL in
> > the allocation of struct cpufreq_driver. Will be fixed in the next release.
> 
> Nope.  That should be fine, it's in a process context and not holding any
> locks, so GFP_KERNEL should be fine.  I found the bug though:
>  
> -driver->policy = (struct cpufreq_policy *) (driver + sizeof(struct cpufreq_driver));
> +driver->policy = (struct cpufreq_policy *) (driver + 1);
>  
> Remember your pointer arithmetic.

yes, you're right. I've just merged your patch into CVS, and I'll send a
patch to Linus really soon. 

<snip>
> [rounding] 
> There probably isn't a lot that can be done about these unfortunately, but
> they won't necessarily converge to a stable value so things may eventually
> start to fail.
Yes, that's a problem; but as cpufreq doesn't change speed dynamically yet
(and thus the number of transitions is somewhat limited) it shouldn't cause
too much trouble _yet_. But I'll try to think of a better solution _soon_.

	Dominik