From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751283AbWITHpf (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Sep 2006 03:45:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751274AbWITHpE (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Sep 2006 03:45:04 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:7645 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751276AbWITHo7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Sep 2006 03:44:59 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: Dmitriy Zavin Subject: Re: therm_throt: Refactor and improve thermal throttle processing Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:43:59 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org References: <11587201623432-git-send-email-dmitriyz@google.com> In-Reply-To: <11587201623432-git-send-email-dmitriyz@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609200943.59550.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 20 September 2006 04:42, Dmitriy Zavin wrote: > This patch-set factors out the thermal throttle processing code > from i386 and x86_64 into a separate file (therm_throt.c). > This allows consistent reporting of CPU thermal throttle events. > Furthermore, a counter is added to /sys that keeps track of the > number of thermal events, such that the user knows how bad the > thermal problem might be (since the logging to syslog and mcelog > is rate limited). Can you put this blurb into the description of the main patch that implements the code please too? -Andi