Re: [PATCH v2] cpufreq: Don't destroy/realloc policy/sysfs on hotplug/suspend

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Tue Jul 15 2014 - 00:35:43 EST


On 15 July 2014 00:38, Saravana Kannan <skannan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yeah, it definitely crashes if policy->cpu if an offline cpu. Because the
> mutex would be uninitialized if it's stopped after boot or it would never
> have been initialized (depending on how you fix policy->cpu at boot).
>
> Look at this snippet on the actual tree and it should be pretty evident.

Yeah, I missed it. So the problem is we initialize timer_mutex's for
policy->cpus. So we need to do that just for policy->cpu and also we don't
need a per-cpu timer_mutex anymore.
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