Re: [PATCH 1/1] Cpufreq: Remove fossil comment of cpufreq_set_policy

From: Lan Tianyu
Date: Wed Sep 11 2013 - 08:39:21 EST


On 09/11/2013 06:08 AM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
On 11 September 2013 08:58, Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From 668e1b6fd94b5c0e56a651b4c60cbbc7a6868b46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 11:31:15 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Cpufreq/governor: Remove fossil comment

cpufreq_set_policy() has been changed to origin __cpufreq_set_policy()
and policy->lock has been converted to rewrite lock by commit 5a01f2.
So remove it.

Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_userspace.c | 11 -----------
1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_userspace.c
b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_userspace.c
index 0307809..4dbf1db 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_userspace.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_userspace.c
@@ -38,18 +38,7 @@ static int cpufreq_set(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
unsigned int freq)
if (!per_cpu(cpu_is_managed, policy->cpu))
goto err;

- /*
- * We're safe from concurrent calls to ->target() here
- * as we hold the userspace_mutex lock. If we were calling
- * cpufreq_driver_target, a deadlock situation might occur:
- * A: cpufreq_set (lock userspace_mutex) ->
- * cpufreq_driver_target(lock policy->lock)
- * B: cpufreq_set_policy(lock policy->lock) ->
- * __cpufreq_governor ->
- * cpufreq_governor_userspace (lock userspace_mutex)
- */
ret = __cpufreq_driver_target(policy, freq, CPUFREQ_RELATION_L);
-
err:
mutex_unlock(&userspace_mutex);
return ret;

Looks fine:

Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>


Thanks. I will send formal version.

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