linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] pm_qos: make update_request callable from interrupt context

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Date:	Wed, 9 Jun 2010 11:46:27 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org>
cc:	pm list <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	james.bottomley@...e.de, markgross@...gnar.org,
	mgross@...ux.intel.com, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] pm_qos: make update_request callable from interrupt
 context

On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, florian@...kler.org wrote:

> The pm_qos framework has to guarantee atomic notifications so that
> drivers can request and release constraints at all times while no races
> occur.
> 
> In order to avoid implementing a secondary notification chain in which
> listeners might sleep, we demand that every listener implements it's
> notification so that it can run in interrupt context. The listener is in
> a better position to know if races are harmful or not.

That breaks existing notifiers.

Thanks,

	tglx
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