RE: [PATCH] cpufreq: remove dbs_mutex

From: Pallipadi, Venkatesh
Date: Tue Jun 23 2009 - 15:22:34 EST




>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ingo Molnar [mailto:mingo@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:14 PM
>To: Pallipadi, Venkatesh
>Cc: Thomas Renninger; Dave Jones; Rusty Russell; Linus
>Torvalds; Yinghai Lu; Avi Kivity; Andrew Morton; Thomas
>Gleixner; H. Peter Anvin; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
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>Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: remove dbs_mutex
>
>
>* Pallipadi, Venkatesh <venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Mathieu Desnoyers sent a patch earlier that should address
>this problem.
>>
>> http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0906.1/00331.html
>
>No, that patch has _not_ fixed the regression:
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/8/563
>

The subsequent failure that Dave saw after that patch seemed to be related to dbs_mutex
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/11/6

That should be be fixed by your original patch.

Thanks,
Venki--
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