Hi Barry,

You fix for invalid cpu id looks fine. As for the P states this new
powertop combines with the cpuidle numbers. so if the system is highly
idle it means processor is idle and hence P states is shown as 0.

Thanks,
Amit Daniel


On 12 December 2011 15:55, Barry Song <21cn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Tony/Amit,
> anybody has tried to use powertop from linaro on a single core ARM
> SoC? What i am using is
> git://android.git.linaro.org/platform/external/powertop.git.
> I got two questions:
> 1. powertop will crash in handle_one_cpu() due to it gets wrong cpu
> number(-1), then i made the following change to make it work:
>
>    powertop: fix segment fault for single cpu env
>
>    Signed-off-by: Barry Song <baohua.s...@csr.com>
>
> diff --git a/cpu/cpu.cpp b/cpu/cpu.cpp
> index 29fc72c..c56c746 100644
> --- a/cpu/cpu.cpp
> +++ b/cpu/cpu.cpp
> @@ -302,6 +302,9 @@ void enumerate_cpus(void)
>                                model = strtoull(c, NULL, 10);
>                        }
>                }
> +
> +               if (number == -1)
> +                       number = 0;
>                if (strncasecmp(line, "bogomips\t", 9) == 0) {
>                        handle_one_cpu(number, vendor, family, model);
>                        set_max_cpu(number);
>
> 2. after fixing problem1, powertop can run on PrimaII, but i always
> get 0.0% for every p states as you can see from attached pic.
> but if we check cpufreq stats in
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats, my system does change freq
> based on ondemand.
>
> # cat time_in_state
> 800000 2064
> 600000 181
> 400000 341
> 200000 60381
>
> # cat trans_table
>   From  :    To
>         :    800000    600000    400000    200000
>   800000:         0        13        13        14
>   600000:         5         0         3         5
>   400000:         5         0         0        11
>   200000:        29         0         0         0
>
> # cat total_trans
> 98
>
> does anyone have experiences about it?
>
> Thanks
> barry

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