From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: akpm@linux-foundation.org (Andrew Morton) Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:52:34 -0700 Subject: [PATCH v3.1-rc9] ARM: populate processor tag in proc-cpuinfo for Uni-processor. In-Reply-To: <20111013164822.GJ21648@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1318520590-24372-1-git-send-email-srinivas.kandagatla@st.com> <20111013164822.GJ21648@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: <20111013135234.49f2d400.akpm@linux-foundation.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:48:22 +0100 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 04:43:10PM +0100, Srinivas KANDAGATLA wrote: > > We recently encountered issue while running cyclesoak on ARM-uniprocessor > > system, What we have noticed it that /proc/cpuinfo does not have > > "processor" tag when its uniprocessor, which looked incorrect. > > All the processors code in kernel do populate this tag for both uni and > > multi processor systems. > > > > This patch just add processor tag for cpuinfo for ARM uni-processor systems. > > I wonder why cyclesoak doesn't use the sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN) > rather than implementing this functionality itself. > > akpm? eep, cyclesoak will soon be celebrating its eleventh birthday. sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN) might have existed back in those days, but I sure didn't know about it!