[ANNOUNCE] cpupowerutils - cpufrequtils extended with quite some features

[Yong Zhang]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 12:34:09PM +0800, Yong Zhang wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:46:59PM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > Happy testing..., if you have a recent machine, you'll like it!
> > 
> > After some testing phase it would be great to get this tool
> > merged into the kernel git repo under:
> > tools/power/cpupower
> > and replace the Intel HW only supporting tools in tools/power/x86.
> 
> I got below output on my laptop:
> 
>     |Mperf               || Idle_Stats                
> CPU | C0   | Cx   | Freq || POLL | C1   | C2   | C3   
>    0| 36.00| 64.00|   820||1843411670376227.2|1843411670376692.2|  0.00|  0.00
>    1| 44.69| 55.31|   920||  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00
> 
> Seems below patch fix it:

forget the declaration of value :)

---
--- utils/helpers/sysfs-orig.c  2011-03-12 12:32:06.179827929 +0800
+++ utils/helpers/sysfs.c       2011-03-12 12:35:21.512796546 +0800
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
                                                     unsigned int idlestate,
                                                     enum idlestate_value which)
 {
-       unsigned long value;
+       unsigned long long value;
        unsigned int len;
        char linebuf[MAX_LINE_LEN];
        char *endp;
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@
                return 0;
        }

-       value = strtoul(linebuf, &endp, 0);
+       value = strtoull(linebuf, &endp, 0);

        if ( endp == linebuf || errno == ERANGE )
                return 0;