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* Race in cpufreq_add_dev()?
@ 2006-07-06 19:35 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
  2006-10-03  0:27 ` Dominik Brodowski
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge @ 2006-07-06 19:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cpufreq

cpufreq_add_dev contains the test:

#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
	/* check whether a different CPU already registered this
	 * CPU because it is in the same boat. */
	policy = cpufreq_cpu_get(cpu);
	if (unlikely(policy)) {
		cpufreq_cpu_put(policy);
		cpufreq_debug_enable_ratelimit();
		return 0;
	}
#endif

I don't see what prevents two CPUs from racing through here.  Both could 
perform this test and find that there's no policy for the CPU, and then 
both will attempt to add it.  Or is there something else which 
serializes multiple CPUs through this code?

    J

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