linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/5] cpufreq: Drop redundant check for inactive policies

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Date:	Mon, 12 Oct 2015 12:35:38 -0700
From:	Saravana Kannan <skannan@...eaurora.org>
To:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
CC:	Rafael Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net>, linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] cpufreq: Drop redundant check for inactive policies

On 10/11/2015 10:21 AM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> We just made sure policy->cpu is online and this check will always fail
> as the policy is active. Drop it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
> ---
>   drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 7 -------
>   1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> index 58aabe0f2d2c..4fa2215cc6ec 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> @@ -843,18 +843,11 @@ static ssize_t store(struct kobject *kobj, struct attribute *attr,
>
>   	down_write(&policy->rwsem);
>
> -	/* Updating inactive policies is invalid, so avoid doing that. */
> -	if (unlikely(policy_is_inactive(policy))) {
> -		ret = -EBUSY;
> -		goto unlock_policy_rwsem;
> -	}
> -
>   	if (fattr->store)
>   		ret = fattr->store(policy, buf, count);
>   	else
>   		ret = -EIO;
>
> -unlock_policy_rwsem:
>   	up_write(&policy->rwsem);
>   unlock:
>   	put_online_cpus();
>

Doesn't really seem related to the sysfs reorg/clean up. Should it be a 
separate patch outside of this series?

Acked-by: Saravana Kannan <skannan@...eaurora.org>

-Saravana

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