Re: [Fwd: Commit 555c45fe0d0 ("int340X/processor_thermal_device: add support for MMIO RAPL") boot failure]

Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-07-20T12:09:58Z

On Saturday, July 20, 2019 12:18:39 PM CEST Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 3:25 AM Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 五, 2019-07-19 at 10:31 -0700, Kenneth R. Crudup wrote:
> > > On Fri, 19 Jul 2019, Zhang Rui wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > please try the patch below and confirm if it helps or not.
> > > >
> > > > From: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
> > > > Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 23:25:14 +0800
> > > > Subject: [PATCH] powercap: adjust init order
> > > The patch fixes the boot crash, yes.
> > >
> > Hi, Kenny,
> >
> > thanks for testing.
> >
> > Rafael,
> >
> > can we merge this urgent fix before the merge window closed?
>
> Well, we could try that, but it is not even in Patchwork ATM and it
> would be good to let it appear in linux-next too.
>
> Please resend it as a proper patch, so that Patchwork can pick it up
> and I'll queue it up and push it next week.

BTW, I picked it up from email, so it will appear in linux-next on Mon, but
I needed to fix it up to make it apply and I made some changes in the
subject and changelog.

Also, it would be good to explain in the changelog what exactly causes the
crash to occur.

Thanks!