Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Mar 2016 13:18:08 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: acpi: policy->driver_data can't be NULL in ->exit() | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> |
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On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 6:24 AM, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> wrote: >> Its always set by ->init() and so it will always be there in ->exit(). >> There is no need to have a special check for just that. > > I'm not sure what happens if there are two (or more) CPUs in the policy, though. > > That case is almost certainly handled incorrectly here (or rather not > handled at all), but it may just happen to sort of work, because the > first exiting CPU will clear driver_data and the second one will > notice that it is NULL now. Of course, that still is racy with > respect to governors etc, but I'd rather fix the driver properly.
Sorry, scratch that. To core only calls ->exit for the last CPU in the policy, so I agree with the patch.
It conflicts with other stuff (as you know), so I'm not sure about the order in which they are going to be applied, though.
Thanks, Rafael
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