Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 03 Feb 2016 12:21:40 -0800 | From | Saravana Kannan <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V2 5/7] cpufreq: Merge cpufreq_offline_prepare/finish routines |
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On 02/03/2016 06:02 AM, Viresh Kumar wrote: > The offline routine was separated into two halves earlier by > 'commit 1aee40ac9c86 ("cpufreq: Invoke __cpufreq_remove_dev_finish() > after releasing cpu_hotplug.lock");. > > And the reasons cited were, race issues between accessing policy's sysfs > files and policy kobject's cleanup. > > That race isn't valid anymore, as we don't remove the policy & its > kobject completely on hotplugs, but do that from ->remove() callback of > subsys framework. > > These two routines can be merged back now. > > This is a preparatory step for the next patch, that will enforce > policy->rwsem lock around __cpufreq_governor() routines STOP/EXIT > sequence.
Is this stale text? Seems like this is now done in the *previous* patch?
-Saravana
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