Re: [PATCH v2] powercap, intel_rapl.c, fix BIOS lock check

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>]

On Wednesday, December 09, 2015 08:53:55 AM Jacob Pan wrote:
> On Wed,  9 Dec 2015 08:31:12 -0500
> Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Intel RAPL initialized on several systems where the BIOS lock bit (msr
> > 0x610, bit 63) was set.  This occured because the return value of
> > rapl_read_data_raw() was being checked, rather than the value of the
> > variable passed in, locked.
> > 
> > This patch properly implments the rapl_read_data_raw() call to check
> > the variable locked, and now the Intel RAPL driver outputs the
> > warning:
> > 
> > 	intel_rapl: RAPL package 0 domain package locked by BIOS
> > 
> > and does not initialize for the package.
> > 
> > Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> > Cc: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Radivoje Jovanovic <radivoje.jovanovic@intel.com>
> > Cc: Seiichi Ikarashi <s.ikarashi@jp.fujitsu.com>
> > Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
> > Cc: Ajay Thomas <ajay.thomas.david.rajamanickam@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
> > 
> > [v2]: fix brackets
> 
> Acked-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>

OK, I've put it into my bleeding-edge branch as 4.5 candidate, but do we
want it in "stable" and therefore should it be pushed for 4.4?

Thanks,
Rafael