[PATCH 0/1][Oneiric/Precise] Fix powertop wakeup reporting

Seth Forshee seth.forshee at canonical.com
Thu Nov 3 15:35:26 UTC 2011


powertop currently doesn't report any wakeups because the tracepoints it
uses are disabled. The tracepoints in question are deprecated, but until
powertop is fixed we should enable them to aid in debugging power
issues.

== Oneiric SRU Justification ==

Impact: powertop uses deprecated tracepoints to detect what is waking
the CPU, but in Oneiric/Precise these tracepoints are disabled, and
powertop reports that no wakeups are occuring.

Fix: Enable the tracepoints by setting
CONFIG_EVENT_POWER_TRACING_DEPRECATED=y.

Testcase: Running powertop without this option gives 0 events/s; running
with this option gives real values. I've personally verified this on
oneiric.




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