Re: [PATCH 0/4] OPP usage fixes for RCU locking

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Friday, January 18, 2013 01:52:31 PM Nishanth Menon wrote:
> Hi,
> Despite being documented in function documentation and in
> Documentation/power/opp.txt, many of the users of OPP APIs
> dont honor RCU lock usage appropriately.
> 
> This recently appeared in IRC discussion earlier today [1]. 
> I did an audit of current usage and the following series
> is a result of this.
> 
> NOTE:
> 1. The patch "PM / devfreq: exynos4_bus: honor RCU lock usage" has only
>    been build tested as I dont have an exynos platform to try it on. I have
>    tried to make it as least intrusive as possible and at least reviewed
>    to ensure I haven't screwed anything up.
> 
> Other than this, I have added appropriate tested by information in requisite
> patches.

Thanks for the fixes.

MyungJoo, do you want me to take the devfreq ones too?

Rafael


> Series is based off: v3.8-rc4 tag
> Also available in the following location[2]:
> https://github.com/nmenon/linux-2.6-playground branch: post/pm/opp-fixes-v1
> 
> Nishanth Menon (4):
>   cpufreq: OMAP: use RCU locks around usage of OPP
>   cpufreq: cpufreq-cpu0: use RCU locks around usage of OPP
>   PM / devfreq: add locking documentation for recommend_opp
>   PM / devfreq: exynos4_bus: honor RCU lock usage
> 
>  drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-cpu0.c |    5 +++
>  drivers/cpufreq/omap-cpufreq.c |    3 ++
>  drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c      |    5 +++
>  drivers/devfreq/exynos4_bus.c  |   94 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  4 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
> 
> [1] http://www.beagleboard.org/irclogs/index.php?date=2013-01-18#T14:14:07
> [2] https://github.com/nmenon/linux-2.6-playground/commits/post/pm/opp-fixes-v1
> 
> Regards,
> Nishanth Menon
> 
-- 
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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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