Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 09:04:13PM -0600, Michal Hocko wrote:
>> [fixing bad linux kernel mailing list email address - sorry, but gmail's
>> thrown mailing delivery error to the spam]
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 01:03:11AM +0400, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
>>> Hi Michal,
>> Hi Alexey,
>>
>>> the charge_now part of your patch seems to be correct, but the
>>> calculation is somehow broken --
>> I have made some experiments and the result is quite surprising to me.
>> It seems that this problem is somehow related to Debian distribution
>> kernel, because I wasn't able to reproduce it with the Vanilla kernel (I
>> had to screw something up last time when I have checked that and
>> reported in the original message).
>>
>> I have tried 3 configurations:
>> * 2.6.25 - Vanilla kernel with config-2.6.25 config and result output in
>> powertop-2.6.25-good
>> * 2.6.25-2 - Debian distribution kernel with config-2.6.25-2 config and
>> powertop-2.6.25-2-bad output
>> * 2.6.26 - Vanilla kernel with config-2.6.26 config and result output in
>> powertop-2.6.26-good
> [...]
>
> I had some time to get back to this issue and the problem why I have
> seen different behavior on distribution and vanilla kernel was in
> configuration.
> While distribution kernel doesn't use CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER=y while
> my vanilla kernel configuration does! This means that the patched code
> wasn't triggered in my vanilla kernel testing.
>
> So that I have checked the print_batter_sysfs again and it seems that
> the problem is on another place:
> powertop.c:648
> sprintf(filename, "/sys/class/power_supply/%s/current_now",
> dirent->d_name);
> file = fopen(filename, "r");
> if (!file)
> continue;
> memset(line, 0, 1024);
> if (fgets(line, 1024, file) != NULL) {
> watts_drawn = strtoull(line, NULL, 10) / 1000000.0;
> }
> fclose(file);
>
> if (!dontcount) {
> rate += watts_drawn + voltage * amperes_drawn;
> }
>
> current rate (later used for the remaining time calculation:
> display.c:201
> sprintf(buffer, _("Power usage (ACPI estimate): %3.1fW (%3.1f hours)"),
> rate, cap/rate);
> )
>
> is calculated as watts_drawn + voltage which is not correct, because
> current_* values are in A and not in W (according to
> linux-src/Documentation/power/power_supply_class.txt).
>
> Updated patch is attached. This one is already working for me.
Merged in powertop-svn, thanks!
Auke
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