Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] cpufreq, store_scaling_governor requires policy->rwsem to be held for duration of changing governors [v2] | Date | Thu, 31 Jul 2014 04:16:13 +0200 |
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On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 06:36:00 PM Saravana Kannan wrote: > On 07/30/2014 02:40 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 10:18:25 AM Prarit Bhargava wrote: > >> > >> On 07/29/2014 08:03 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > >>> On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 07:46:02 AM Prarit Bhargava wrote: > > > > [cut] > > > >>>> This patch effectively reverts commit 955ef483. > > The issue reported in this patch is valid. We are seeing that internally > too. I believe I reported it in another thread (within the past month). > > However, the original patch fixes a real deadlock issue (I'm too tired > to look it up now). We can revet the original, but it's going to bring > back the original issue. I just want to make sure Prarit and Raphael > realize this before proceeding. > > I do have plans for a proper fix for the mainline (not stable branches), > but plan to do that after the current set of suspend/hotplug patches go > through. The fix would be easier to make after that. > > >>> > >>> OK, I'm convinced by this. > >>> > >>> I suppose we should push it for -stable from 3.10 through 3.15.x, right? > >> > >> Rafael, I think that is a good idea. I'm not sure what the protocol is for > >> adding stable@kernel.org though ... > > > > I'll take care of this, thanks! > > > > But you aren't going to pull the in for the next release, right?
What do you mean?
Rafael
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