Please see MAINTAINERS file to get list of people/lists you need to send your patch to. On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 12:01 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The time_in_state numbers are in units of jiffies, not cputime. > > Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_stats.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_stats.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_stats.c > index d37568c..10e6138 100644 > --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_stats.c > +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_stats.c > @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ static ssize_t show_time_in_state(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, char *buf) > for (i = 0; i < stat->state_num; i++) { > len += sprintf(buf + len, "%u %llu\n", stat->freq_table[i], > (unsigned long long) > - cputime64_to_clock_t(stat->time_in_state[i])); > + jiffies_64_to_clock_t(stat->time_in_state[i])); I tried to go to the history a bit but really couldn't make out what was the real intention initially: Following patches did this change: - stat->time_in_state[stat->last_index] += - delta_time(stat->last_time, jiffies); - stat->last_time = jiffies; + stat->time_in_state[stat->last_index] = + cputime64_add(stat->time_in_state[stat->last_index], + cputime_sub(cur_time, stat->last_time)); commit 58f1df25403988b73d7129fcd2c4d4c24017f1af Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed May 25 14:46:50 2005 -0700 [PATCH] cpufreq-stats driver updates And it was then simplified by: commit 648616343cdbe904c585a6c12e323d3b3c72e46f Author: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Dec 15 14:56:09 2011 +0100 [S390] cputime: add sparse checking and cleanup - stat->time_in_state[stat->last_index] = - cputime64_add(stat->time_in_state[stat->last_index], - cputime_sub(cur_time, stat->last_time)); + stat->time_in_state[stat->last_index] += + cur_time - stat->last_time; And obviously cur_time is in jiffies... I am okay with your patch if Rafael doesn't see any issues with it... Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cpufreq" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html