Ack.

Thanks,
Venki 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Williamson
>Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 2:50 PM
>To: Pallipadi, Venkatesh
>Cc: linux-ia64
>Subject: [PATCH] Fix processor_get_freq
>
>
>   The core cpufreq code doesn't appear to understand returning -EAGAIN
>for the get() function of the cpufreq_driver.  If 
>PAL_GET_PSTATE returns
>-1, such as when running on Xen, scaling_cur_freq is happy to return
>4294967285 kHz (ie. (unsigned)-11).  The other drivers appear to return
>0 for a failure, and doing so gives me the max frequency from
>scaling_cur_frequency and "<unknown>" from cpuinfo_cur_frequency.  I
>believe that's the desired behavior.  Thanks,
>
>       Alex
>
>Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>---
>
>diff -r 1559df81a153 arch/ia64/kernel/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
>--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c  Mon Aug 13 
>05:00:33 2007 +0000
>+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c  Mon Aug 13 
>15:41:29 2007 -0600
>@@ -113,10 +113,8 @@ processor_get_freq (
> 
>       saved_mask = current->cpus_allowed;
>       set_cpus_allowed(current, cpumask_of_cpu(cpu));
>-      if (smp_processor_id() != cpu) {
>-              ret = -EAGAIN;
>+      if (smp_processor_id() != cpu)
>               goto migrate_end;
>-      }
> 
>       /* processor_get_pstate gets the instantaneous frequency */
>       ret = processor_get_pstate(&value);
>@@ -125,7 +123,7 @@ processor_get_freq (
>               set_cpus_allowed(current, saved_mask);
>               printk(KERN_WARNING "get performance failed 
>with error %d\n",
>                      ret);
>-              ret = -EAGAIN;
>+              ret = 0;
>               goto migrate_end;
>       }
>       clock_freq = extract_clock(data, value, cpu);
>
>
>-
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