This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tools/power turbostat: Fix /dev/cpu_dma_latency warnings to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: tools-power-turbostat-fix-dev-cpu_dma_latency-warnin.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 05f1bfec1e72aa26791a8fd0ca0e517e4d3375e4 Author: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Dec 15 10:18:16 2022 -0500 tools/power turbostat: Fix /dev/cpu_dma_latency warnings [ Upstream commit 40aafc7d58d3544f152a863a0e9863014b6d5d8c ] When running as non-root the following error is seen in turbostat: turbostat: fopen /dev/cpu_dma_latency : Permission denied turbostat and the man page have information on how to avoid other permission errors, so these can be fixed the same way. Provide better /dev/cpu_dma_latency warnings that provide instructions on how to avoid the error, and update the man page. Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.8 b/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.8 index 9b17097bc3d7b..b3d4bf08e70b1 100644 --- a/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.8 +++ b/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.8 @@ -296,6 +296,8 @@ Alternatively, non-root users can be enabled to run turbostat this way: # chmod +r /dev/cpu/*/msr +# chmod +r /dev/cpu_dma_latency + .B "turbostat " reads hardware counters, but doesn't write them. So it will not interfere with the OS or other programs, including diff --git a/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c b/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c index 4f176bbf29f42..84b8a35c91972 100644 --- a/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c +++ b/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c @@ -5237,7 +5237,7 @@ void print_dev_latency(void) retval = read(fd, (void *)&value, sizeof(int)); if (retval != sizeof(int)) { - warn("read %s\n", path); + warn("read failed %s\n", path); close(fd); return; }