Re: [patch 00/2] improve .text size on gcc 4.0 and newer compilers

Mark Lord
2005-12-30T04:11:34Z

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 10:57:40PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> > Mark Lord wrote:
> > >
> > >Okay, I'm complaining: /proc/cpuinfo is no longer correct
> > >for my Pentium-M notebook, as ov 2.6.15-rc7. Now it reports
> > >a cpu speed of approx 800Mhz for a 2.0Mhz Pentium-M.
> >
> > 2.0GHz, not Mhz! (blush)
> >
> > Prior to -rc7, /proc/cpuinfo would scale according to the
> > current speedstep of the CPU. Now it seems stuck at the
> > lowest setting for some reason.
>
> Ok, if the scaling doesn't work any more, that's a bug rather
> than an intentional breakage. More details please? dmesg ?
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq contents? What were you using
> to do the scaling previously? (An app, or ondemand)

The actual speedstep component ("ondemand" cpufreq) is working just
fine, according to /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq. But /proc/cpuinfo
is no longer reflecting the current values -- stuck at 800Mhz
regardless of /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq showing other values.

Cheers