Shilpasri G Bhat <shilpa.b...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes: > From: "Gautham R. Shenoy" <e...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > > Pstates are 8bit values but on POWER8 they are negative and on POWER9 > they are positive. This patch adds helper routines to differentiate > the sign to read the correct pstate value.
This sounds like it could be a bad bug, but I can't really tell from the change log. What is the actual impact of not having this patch? Should it have a Fixes/Cc-stable tag? cheers