tools/power turbostat: bugfix: GFXMHz column not changing
authorLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Sat, 4 Mar 2017 20:42:48 +0000 (15:42 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 8 Oct 2017 08:26:11 +0000 (10:26 +0200)
commit86c469bea4ae129433d119b7eb178d40421db045
tree421960515eb0a32def2acfb3c34a4abb90156944
parentc126bc6b94ddbc94af3382e31eeb927e7d6bc533
tools/power turbostat: bugfix: GFXMHz column not changing

[ Upstream commit 22048c5485503749754b3b5daf9d99ef89fcacdc ]

turbostat displays a GFXMHz column, which comes from reading
/sys/class/graphics/fb0/device/drm/card0/gt_cur_freq_mhz

But GFXMHz was not changing, even when a manual
cat /sys/class/graphics/fb0/device/drm/card0/gt_cur_freq_mhz
showed a new value.

It turns out that a rewind() on the open file is not sufficient,
fflush() (or a close/open) is needed to read fresh values.

Reported-by: Yaroslav Isakov <yaroslav.isakov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c