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SubjectRe: [PATCH] cpufreq, store_scaling_governor requires policy->rwsem to be held for duration of changing governors [v2]
On 07/31/2014 01:30 PM, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
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>
> On 07/31/2014 04:24 PM, Saravana Kannan wrote:
>>
>> Prarit,
>>
>> I'm not an expert on sysfs locking, but I would think the specific sysfs lock
>> would depend on the file/attribute group. So, can you please try to hotplug a
>> core in/out (to trigger the POLICY_EXIT) and then read a sysfs file exported by
>> the governor? scaling_governor doesn't cut it since that file is not removed on
>> policy exit event to governor. If it's ondemand, try reading/write it's sampling
>> rate file.
>
> Thanks Saravana -- will do. I will get back to you shortly on this.
>

Thanks. Btw, in case you weren't already aware of it. You'll have to
hoplug out all the CPUs in a cluster to trigger a POLICY_EXIT for that
cluster/policy.

-Saravana

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