linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] thermal/core: Move the thermal zone lock out of the governors

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Message-ID: <20221004141454.GA1746997@roeck-us.net>
Date:   Tue, 4 Oct 2022 07:14:54 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
Cc:     rafael@...nel.org, rui.zhang@...el.com, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Amit Kucheria <amitk@...nel.org>,
        Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] thermal/core: Move the thermal zone lock out of the
 governors

On Fri, Aug 05, 2022 at 05:38:33PM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> All the governors throttling ops are taking/releasing the lock at the
> beginning and the end of the function.
> 
> We can move the mutex to the throttling call site instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
> ---
>  drivers/thermal/gov_bang_bang.c       |  4 +---
>  drivers/thermal/gov_fair_share.c      |  4 +---
>  drivers/thermal/gov_power_allocator.c | 16 ++++++----------
>  drivers/thermal/gov_step_wise.c       |  4 +---
>  drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c        |  2 ++

This doesn't drop the lock from drivers/thermal/gov_user_space.c.
Is that on purpose ?

Thanks,
Guenter