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| -rw-r--r-- | meta/recipes-kernel/powertop/powertop-1.13/stub_out_the_ncurses_calls_in_dump_mode.patch | 31 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | meta/recipes-kernel/powertop/powertop_1.13.bb | 3 |
2 files changed, 33 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/powertop/powertop-1.13/stub_out_the_ncurses_calls_in_dump_mode.patch b/meta/recipes-kernel/powertop/powertop-1.13/stub_out_the_ncurses_calls_in_dump_mode.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e837765c28 --- /dev/null +++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/powertop/powertop-1.13/stub_out_the_ncurses_calls_in_dump_mode.patch @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +Running PowerTop in Poky in dump mode (with --dump) always ends with a +segmentation fault. + +The cause is: in dump mode, setup_windows() is not invoked so the +*_window variables, like cstate_window, are still NULL; later in +main() -> show_cstates(), the functions, like wrefresh(), will trigger +segfault. + +After discussing in PowerTop mailling list, I think the right solution is +we should stub out the ncurses calls in dump mode. + +(The patch was also sent to upstream PowerTop mailling list.) + +Signed-off-by Dexuan Cui <dexuan.cui@intel.com>, 2010-08-20 +(this patch is licensed under GPLv2) + +--- a/display.c ++++ b/display.c +@@ -44,6 +44,12 @@ + static WINDOW *status_bar_window; + + #define print(win, y, x, fmt, args...) do { if (dump) printf(fmt, ## args); else mvwprintw(win, y, x, fmt, ## args); } while (0) ++#define wattrset(win, c) do { if (!dump ) wattrset(win, c); } while (0) ++#define wbkgd(win, c) do { if (!dump ) wbkgd(win, c); } while (0) ++#define werase(win) do { if (!dump ) werase(win); } while (0) ++#define wrefresh(win) do { if (!dump ) wrefresh(win); } while (0) ++#define wattron(win, a) do { if (!dump ) wattron(win, a); } while (0) ++#define wattroff(win, a) do { if (!dump ) wattroff(win, a); } while (0) + + char status_bar_slots[10][40]; + diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/powertop/powertop_1.13.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/powertop/powertop_1.13.bb index c52f2830b8..c16f1aca63 100644 --- a/meta/recipes-kernel/powertop/powertop_1.13.bb +++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/powertop/powertop_1.13.bb @@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ REPENDS_${PN} = "pciutils" PR = "r0" -SRC_URI = "http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/download/powertop-${PV}.tar.gz" +SRC_URI = "http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/download/powertop-${PV}.tar.gz \ + file://stub_out_the_ncurses_calls_in_dump_mode.patch" CFLAGS += "${LDFLAGS}" EXTRA_OEMAKE = "VERSION=\"${PV}\"" |