Re: [PATCH v4] cpupower: Provide online and offline CPU information

[Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>]

On 10/23/20 9:25 AM, Brahadambal Srinivasan wrote:
> When a user tries to modify cpuidle or cpufreq properties on offline
> CPUs, the tool returns success (exit status 0) but also does not provide
> any warning message regarding offline cpus that may have been specified
> but left unchanged. In case of all or a few CPUs being offline, it can be
> difficult to keep track of which CPUs didn't get the new frequency or idle
> state set. Silent failures are difficult to keep track of when there are a
> huge number of CPUs on which the action is performed.
> 
> This patch adds helper functions to find both online and offline CPUs and
> print them out accordingly.
> 
> We use these helper functions in cpuidle-set and cpufreq-set to print an
> additional message if the user attempts to modify offline cpus.
> 
> Reported-by: Pavithra R. Prakash <pavrampu@in.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Brahadambal Srinivasan <latha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>   tools/power/cpupower/utils/cpufreq-set.c     |  3 +
>   tools/power/cpupower/utils/cpuidle-set.c     |  4 ++
>   tools/power/cpupower/utils/cpupower.c        |  8 +++
>   tools/power/cpupower/utils/helpers/helpers.h | 12 ++++
>   tools/power/cpupower/utils/helpers/misc.c    | 66 +++++++++++++++++++-
>   5 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> v1-->v2: Added helper functions to find online and offline CPUs and print them.
> v2-->v3: Fixed some build issues
> v3-->v4: Fixed the commit log and moved the version summary to the correct place.
> 

Thank you. Applied to
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux.git/log/?h=cpupower

Will be included in my next pull request to PM maintainer.

thanks,
-- Shuah