tools/power turbostat: prevent infinite loop on migration error path
authorLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Fri, 9 Nov 2012 03:38:05 +0000 (22:38 -0500)
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:03:06 +0000 (00:03 -0500)
commite52966c084f9d9ea12be2ac7df801d610d4a19a5
tree4ea59e63067349ce8671cdcf7fe06a62c0b1933b
parent3fc808aaa052dec7b155f3242c6c0eabf0c49127
tools/power turbostat: prevent infinite loop on migration error path

Turbostat assumed if it can't migrate to a CPU, then the CPU
must have gone off-line and turbostat should re-initialize
with the new topology.

But if turbostat can not migrate because it is restricted by
a cpuset, then it will fail to migrate even after re-initialization,
resulting in an infinite loop.

Spit out a warning when we can't migrate
and endure only 2 re-initialize cycles in a row
before giving up and exiting.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c