Re: [PATCH v2] cpupower : Handle set and info subcommands correctly

From: Abhishek
Date: Mon Oct 14 2019 - 05:38:58 EST


Hi Shuah,


On 10/04/2019 03:45 AM, shuah wrote:
Hi Abhishek,

On 10/3/19 8:38 AM, shuah wrote:
On 9/13/19 2:07 AM, Abhishek Goel wrote:
Cpupower tool has set and info options which are being used only by
x86 machines. This patch removes support for these two subcommands
from generic cpupower utility. Thus, these two subcommands will now be
available only for intel.
This removes the ambiguous error message while using set option in case
of using non-intel systems.

Without this patch on a non-intel box:

root@ubuntu:~# cpupower info
System does not support Intel's performance bias setting

root@ubuntu:~# cpupower set -b 10
Error setting perf-bias value on CPU

With this patch on a non-intel box:

root@ubuntu:~# cpupower info
Supported commands are:
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ frequency-info
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ frequency-set
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ idle-info
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ idle-set
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ monitor
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ help

Same result for set subcommand.

This patch does not affect results on a intel box.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Goel <huntbag@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx>
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changes from v1:
ÂÂÂÂInstead of bailing out early in set and info commands, in V2, we
ÂÂÂÂare cutting out support for these two commands for non-intel
ÂÂÂÂsystems.

thanks. I will get this in for 5.4-rc3 veru likely. Definitely in 5.4


Okay I almost applied this and decided it needs improvements.

I don't like using #if defined(__x86_64__) || defined(__i386__)

tools/power/cpupower/utils/cpupower.c main() already does this
dynamically using uname(). Please use the same logic do this,
instead of adding compile time code.

thanks,
-- Shuah

Do you want the decision to be taken in cpupower-set and cpupower-info
file as was done in v1 but using uname() by identifying the architecture
there itself?

Thanks,
--Abhishek