A Bug in 3.9.8

A Bug in 3.9.8

[Richard Corbin]

Folks:

I sent the indented text to gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, inappropriately 
as I suspected. I got a polite automated response suggesting alternate 
destinations for my email. To my non-technical eyes, your addresses 
seemed most appropriate.

     "Mr. Kroah-Hartman,

     "Excuse me for bothering you, but I do not know where to report my 
problem and I found your name in 
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.9.8-saucy/BUILD.LOG.

     "I am running Linux Mint KDE v15, but I like to run the latest 
kernel. I have never had a problem before installing the latest "general 
release" kernel from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ 
until yesterday.

     "After I installed v3.9.8-saucy, the system could no longer "read" 
cpu usage of my quad-core Intel  q6600. Conky, "top", "mpstat -P ALL" 
all show ZERO CPU usage. Everything else is fine; it is just the 
reporting that is busted.

     "If you are the wrong person and cannot forward to correct 
destination, then I am sorry for wasting your time."

I neglected to write that when I rebooted the identical system using 
v3.9.7-saucy as the kernel, the CPU usage for each core was registering 
non-zero values when appropriate as usual.

Cordially,
Richard Corbin

Re: A Bug in 3.9.8

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 04:52:47PM -0500, Richard Corbin wrote:
> Folks:
> 
> I sent the indented text to gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
> inappropriately as I suspected. I got a polite automated response
> suggesting alternate destinations for my email. To my non-technical
> eyes, your addresses seemed most appropriate.
> 
>     "Mr. Kroah-Hartman,
> 
>     "Excuse me for bothering you, but I do not know where to report
> my problem and I found your name in
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.9.8-saucy/BUILD.LOG.

My name is there because it's the first commit, for some strange reason
the Ubuntu build logs this, but I have nothing to do with their kernel
builds.

>     "I am running Linux Mint KDE v15, but I like to run the latest
> kernel. I have never had a problem before installing the latest
> "general release" kernel from
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ until yesterday.
> 
>     "After I installed v3.9.8-saucy, the system could no longer
> "read" cpu usage of my quad-core Intel  q6600. Conky, "top", "mpstat
> -P ALL" all show ZERO CPU usage. Everything else is fine; it is just
> the reporting that is busted.
> 
>     "If you are the wrong person and cannot forward to correct
> destination, then I am sorry for wasting your time."
> 
> I neglected to write that when I rebooted the identical system using
> v3.9.7-saucy as the kernel, the CPU usage for each core was
> registering non-zero values when appropriate as usual.

As this is a Ubuntu-specific kernel, I suggest filing a bug in the
Ubuntu bug tracking tool to help resolve this, ther's not much we in the
community can do about this, sorry.

best of luck,

greg k-h

Re: A Bug in 3.9.8

[Richard Corbin]

Many Thanks and my apologies.


Richard Corbin
25532 Southwind Rd.
Warrenton, MO 63383
racorbin2010@charter.net



-------- Original Message --------
*Subject:* 	Re: A Bug in 3.9.8
*Date:* 	Sun 06/30/2013 at 11:11 AM
*From:* 	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
*To: * 	Richard Corbin <racorbin2010@charter.net>
*CC: * 	stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

> On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 04:52:47PM -0500, Richard Corbin wrote:
>> Folks:
>>
>> I sent the indented text to gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
>> inappropriately as I suspected. I got a polite automated response
>> suggesting alternate destinations for my email. To my non-technical
>> eyes, your addresses seemed most appropriate.
>>
>>      "Mr. Kroah-Hartman,
>>
>>      "Excuse me for bothering you, but I do not know where to report
>> my problem and I found your name in
>> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.9.8-saucy/BUILD.LOG.
> My name is there because it's the first commit, for some strange reason
> the Ubuntu build logs this, but I have nothing to do with their kernel
> builds.
>
>>      "I am running Linux Mint KDE v15, but I like to run the latest
>> kernel. I have never had a problem before installing the latest
>> "general release" kernel from
>> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ until yesterday.
>>
>>      "After I installed v3.9.8-saucy, the system could no longer
>> "read" cpu usage of my quad-core Intel  q6600. Conky, "top", "mpstat
>> -P ALL" all show ZERO CPU usage. Everything else is fine; it is just
>> the reporting that is busted.
>>
>>      "If you are the wrong person and cannot forward to correct
>> destination, then I am sorry for wasting your time."
>>
>> I neglected to write that when I rebooted the identical system using
>> v3.9.7-saucy as the kernel, the CPU usage for each core was
>> registering non-zero values when appropriate as usual.
> As this is a Ubuntu-specific kernel, I suggest filing a bug in the
> Ubuntu bug tracking tool to help resolve this, ther's not much we in the
> community can do about this, sorry.
>
> best of luck,
>
> greg k-h
>