On 11-01-16, 14:23, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 02:54:36PM -0600, Shilpasri G Bhat wrote: > > In POWER8, OCC(On-Chip-Controller) can throttle the frequency of the > > CPU when the chip crosses its thermal and power limits. Currently, > > powernv-cpufreq driver detects and reports this event as a console > > message. Some machines may not sustain the max turbo frequency in all > > conditions and can be throttled frequently. This can lead to the > > flooding of console with throttle messages. So this patchset aims to > > redesign the presentation of this event via sysfs counters and > > tracepoints. > > > > Patches [2] to [4] will add a perf trace point "power:powernv_throttle" and > > sysfs throttle counter stats in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/chipN. > > Patch [1] solves a bug in powernv_cpufreq_throttle_check(), which calls in to > > cpu_to_chip_id() in hot path which reads DT every time to find the chip id. > > <formletter> > > This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the > stable kernel tree. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt > for how to do this properly. > > </formletter> Also you shouldn't use --in-reply-to for the new versions of a multiple patch series. Just use a new thread. -- viresh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html