On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:18:03PM +0000, rosslagerwall@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 03:04:16PM -0700, Vinson Lee wrote: > > Hi. > > > > Please backport upstream commit 8673b83bf2f013379453b4779047bf3c6ae387e4 > > "acpi-cpufreq: set current frequency based on target P-State" to stable > > kernels 3.7 and earlier. This patch enables the kernel to control > > P-states on several platforms. Without this patch, the kernel was unable > > to control P-states on the same platforms. > > > > The upstream patch cleanly applies to 3.7. > > > > A backported patch is needed with the removal of SYSTEM_AMD_MSR_CAPABLE > > for kernels 3.6 and earlier. > > > > I seem to recall that the problem was a regression introduced by commit > 5a1c0228 (cpufreq: Avoid calling cpufreq driver's target() routine if > target_freq == policy->cur) which was introduced in the 3.8 cycle. Are > you sure it is necessary for kernels < 3.8? Given the lack of response here, I'm dropping these from my queue. If someone wants them back in, please resend after responding to this... greg k-h -- 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
