Hi Matthias, I love your patch! Yet something to improve: [auto build test ERROR on linus/master] [also build test ERROR on v4.17 next-20180608] [if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help improve the system] url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Matthias-Kaehlcke/Add-throttler-driver-for-non-thermal-throttling/20180609-061437 config: openrisc-allmodconfig (attached as .config) compiler: or1k-linux-gcc (GCC) 6.0.0 20160327 (experimental) reproduce: wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross # save the attached .config to linux build tree make.cross ARCH=openrisc All errors (new ones prefixed by >>): drivers/misc/throttler/core.c: In function 'thr_cpufreq_update_policy': >> drivers/misc/throttler/core.c:417:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'cpufreq_update_policy' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] cpufreq_update_policy(cftd->cpu); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ cc1: some warnings being treated as errors vim +/cpufreq_update_policy +417 drivers/misc/throttler/core.c 391 392 static void thr_cpufreq_update_policy(struct throttler *thr) 393 { 394 struct cpufreq_thrdev *cftd; 395 396 WARN_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&thr->lock)); 397 398 list_for_each_entry(cftd, &thr->cpufreq.list, node) { 399 struct cpufreq_policy *policy = cpufreq_cpu_get(cftd->cpu); 400 401 if (!policy) { 402 dev_warn(thr->dev, 403 "CPU%d does have no cpufreq policy!\n", 404 cftd->cpu); 405 continue; 406 } 407 408 /* 409 * The lock isn't really needed in this function, the list 410 * of cpufreq devices can be extended, but no items are 411 * deleted during the lifetime of the throttler. Releasing 412 * the lock is necessary since cpufreq_update_policy() ends 413 * up calling thr_handle_cpufreq_event(), which needs to 414 * acquire the lock. 415 */ 416 mutex_unlock(&thr->lock); > 417 cpufreq_update_policy(cftd->cpu); 418 mutex_lock(&thr->lock); 419 420 cpufreq_cpu_put(policy); 421 } 422 } 423 --- 0-DAY kernel test infrastructure Open Source Technology Center https://lists.01.org/pipermail/kbuild-all Intel Corporation