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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3] cpufreq: fix race on cpufreq online
On 13-05-22, 09:57, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 12-05-22, 12:49, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > Moreover, I'm not sure why the locking dance in store() is necessary.
> > >
> > > commit fdd320da84c6 ("cpufreq: Lock CPU online/offline in cpufreq_register_driver()")
> >
> > I get that, but I'm wondering if locking CPU hotplug from store() is
> > needed at all. I mean, if we are in store(), we are holding an active
> > reference to the policy kobject, so the policy cannot go away until we
> > are done anyway. Thus it should be sufficient to use the policy rwsem
> > for synchronization.
>
> I think after the current patchset is applied and we have the inactive
> policy check in store(), we won't required the dance after all.

I was writing a patch for this and then thought maybe look at mails
around this time, when you sent the patch, and found the reason why we
need the locking dance :)

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20150729091136.GN7557@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk/

I will add a comment for this now.

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viresh

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