linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] cpufreq: Set policy to non-NULL only after all hotplug online work is done

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Date:	Wed, 26 Feb 2014 11:44:04 +0530
From:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:	Saravana Kannan <skannan@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	"linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] cpufreq: Set policy to non-NULL only after all
 hotplug online work is done

On 26 February 2014 09:08, Saravana Kannan <skannan@...eaurora.org> wrote:
> The existing code sets the per CPU policy to a non-NULL value before all
> the steps performed during the hotplug online path is done. Specifically,
> this is done before the policy min/max, governors, etc are initialized for
> the policy.  This in turn means that calls to cpufreq_cpu_get() return a
> non-NULL policy before the policy/CPU is ready to be used.

First two patches are fine but I would still say that take the three patches
I posted instead of this. Reasoning already given in other mails.
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