On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 11:15 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Yi Yang <yi.y.yang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > cpuidle C-state sysfs node time and usage are very easy to overflow > > because they are all of unsigned int type, time will overflow within > > about two hours, usage will take longer time to overflow, but they are > > increasing for ever. > > > > This patch will convert them to unsigned long long. > > what happens if such an overflow happens - any particular regression or > other misbehavior, or just funny looking stats in sysfs? They are just stats info in sysfs, cpuidle's behaviors don't depend on them. I didn't notice any regression or misbehaviors. > > Ingo > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
