Re: [PATCH 2/3] tools/power turbostat: avoid an infinite loop of restarts

[David Arcari <darcari@redhat.com>]

I see.  Perhaps this isn't fixable then.  I'll take another look.

-DA

On 11/25/25 2:12 PM, Len Brown wrote:
> this patch introduces a limit of 10-restarts per turbostat lifetime,
> down from infinity.
> 
> some turbostat invocations span multiple uses of cpu online/offline --
> so this limit will not fly.
> 
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 10:58 AM David Arcari <darcari@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> There are some error cases where turbostat will attempt to reinitialize
>> by calling the re_initialize() function.  The code attempts to avoid
>> an infinite loop by checking the value of 'restarted' in one case, but
>> not others. It should be checked in all cases of restart.  Additonally,
>> the 'restarted' is reset to zero at the start of the loop which also
>> needs to be removed.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Arcari <darcari@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
>> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>> ---
>>   tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c | 10 +++++-----
>>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c b/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c
>> index 584b0f7f9067..5567b9ecd516 100644
>> --- a/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c
>> +++ b/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c
>> @@ -6722,7 +6722,11 @@ void turbostat_loop()
>>          set_my_sched_priority(-20);
>>
>>   restart:
>> -       restarted++;
>> +       if (restarted++ > 10) {
>> +               if (!retval)
>> +                       retval = -1;
>> +               exit(retval);
>> +       }
>>
>>          snapshot_proc_sysfs_files();
>>          retval = for_all_cpus(get_counters, EVEN_COUNTERS);
>> @@ -6730,13 +6734,9 @@ void turbostat_loop()
>>          if (retval < -1) {
>>                  exit(retval);
>>          } else if (retval == -1) {
>> -               if (restarted > 10) {
>> -                       exit(retval);
>> -               }
>>                  re_initialize();
>>                  goto restart;
>>          }
>> -       restarted = 0;
>>          done_iters = 0;
>>          gettimeofday(&tv_even, (struct timezone *)NULL);
>>
>> --
>> 2.51.0
>>
>>
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