linux-kernel - Re: Re: [PATCH] PM / devfreq: Use freq_table for available

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Date:	Tue, 15 Apr 2014 06:30:10 +0000 (GMT)
From:	함명주 <myungjoo.ham@...sung.com>
To:	Saravana Kannan <skannan@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	박경민 <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
	"linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] PM / devfreq: Use freq_table for available_frequencies

> On 04/14/2014 06:36 PM, 함명주 wrote:
> >> MyungJoo/Kyungmin,
> >>
> >> Bump. Can we accept this patch please?
> >>
> >> -Saravana
> > 
> > Nack.
> > 
> > Please note that freq_table is also an optional value, which may
> > be null.
> 
> Ah, I saw that the max_freq would be zero if freq_table was NULL and I
> assumed that it can't be NULL. But I see that the max_freq limit is not
> applied if it's zero. Thanks for catching it.
> 
> > Besides, please be aware that your code is under rcu_read_lock().
> 
> Valid point. I was just trying to keep the diff simple. No one's really
> going to be catting this file often when performance matters.
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > MyungJoo.
> > 
> > ps. I'll send a related patch (avoid accessing null but not-an-error
> > pointer at other sysfs nodes). Thank you for letting me catch such bugs anyway.
> 
> I can go ahead and do this myself if you don't mind.

No, we don't need it. It was a false alarm.
Reading again, I've found that we've already made other sysfs nodes
check if either freq_table is null or its size is 0.

So, we only need to look at this available_frequencies node now.

I'll add some notes on the ABI doc for available_frequencies soon.

Cheers,
MyungJoo.

> 
> -Saravana
> 
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