Re: BUG: cpufreq notification broken

[Alan Stern]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> There is another issue with this SRCU change:
> 
> The notification comes actually after the real change, which is bad. We
> try to make the TSC usable by backing it with pm_timer accross such
> states, but this behaviour breaks the safety code.

I don't understand.  Sending notifications is completely separate from 
setting up the notifier chain's head.  The patch you mentioned didn't 
touch the code that sends the notifications.

Alan Stern

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