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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org,
	mingo@elte.hu, venkateshs@google.com, ak@linux.intel.com,
	zheng.z.yan@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf/x86: fix RAPL rdmsrl_safe() usage
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:00:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140423190015.GF25378@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140423170418.GA12767@quad>

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 07:04:19PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> 
> This patch fixes a bug introduced by commit 24223657.

Maybe add

Fixes: <commit-id>

tag?

> The rdmsrl_safe() function returns 0 on success.
> The current code was failing to detect the RAPL PMU
> on real hardware  (missing /sys/devices/power) because
> the return value of rdmsrl_safe() was misinterpreted.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-23 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-23 17:04 [PATCH] perf/x86: fix RAPL rdmsrl_safe() usage Stephane Eranian
2014-04-23 19:00 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2014-04-23 19:27   ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2014-04-23 20:00     ` Andi Kleen
2014-04-24  8:03 ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf/x86: Fix " tip-bot for Stephane Eranian

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