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From: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
To: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Rafael Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	Viresh Kumar <vireshk@kernel.org>, Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>,
	linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/12] PM / OPP: Add 'struct kref' to struct dev_pm_opp
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 12:01:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170119200100.GB7829@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170113085639.GE9953@vireshk-i7>

On 01/13, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 13-01-17, 00:52, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > What still doesn't make sense is how an individual OPP could go
> > away without the table that the OPP lives in also going away.
> 
> dev_pm_opp_remove() is one such option, which can remove OPPs
> individually. Over that, while remove tables we remove all the OPPs
> one by one. So that really does happen.
> 
> > If
> > an OPP is going away while a driver has a reference to it, then
> > the driver using that OPP should probably not be using it.
> 
> That is being protected with this patch now and the drivers can use
> them freely.
> 
> > TL;DR
> > letting drivers use OPP pointers outside of the OPP core feels
> > racy.
> 
> Hmm, we don't update the OPP a lot after creating it today. But that's
> a different problem to solve, if we really see a race there.
> 

Ok. We still have work to do to fix the race between drivers
using dev_pm_opp pointers and other drivers updating the data
those pointers point to like voltage, enable/disable, etc. This
isn't making anything worse than it already is though, so:

Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-19 20:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-07 10:37 [PATCH 00/12] PM / OPP: Use kref and move away from RCU locking Viresh Kumar
2016-12-07 10:37 ` [PATCH 01/12] PM / OPP: Add per OPP table mutex Viresh Kumar
2017-01-09 23:11   ` Stephen Boyd
2016-12-07 10:37 ` [PATCH 02/12] PM / OPP: Add 'struct kref' to OPP table Viresh Kumar
2017-01-09 23:36   ` Stephen Boyd
2017-01-10  4:23     ` Viresh Kumar
2017-01-13  8:54       ` Stephen Boyd
2016-12-07 10:37 ` [PATCH 03/12] PM / OPP: Return opp_table from dev_pm_opp_set_*() routines Viresh Kumar
2017-01-09 23:37   ` Stephen Boyd
2016-12-07 10:37 ` [PATCH 04/12] PM / OPP: Take reference of the OPP table while adding/removing OPPs Viresh Kumar
2017-01-09 23:38   ` Stephen Boyd
2016-12-07 10:37 ` [PATCH 05/12] PM / OPP: Use dev_pm_opp_get_opp_table() instead of _add_opp_table() Viresh Kumar
2017-01-09 23:43   ` Stephen Boyd
2016-12-07 10:37 ` [PATCH 06/12] PM / OPP: Add 'struct kref' to struct dev_pm_opp Viresh Kumar
2017-01-09 23:44   ` Stephen Boyd
2017-01-10  4:26     ` Viresh Kumar
2017-01-13  8:52       ` Stephen Boyd
2017-01-13  8:56         ` Viresh Kumar
2017-01-19 20:01           ` Stephen Boyd [this message]
2016-12-07 10:37 ` [PATCH 07/12] PM / OPP: Update OPP users to put reference Viresh Kumar
2016-12-07 13:23   ` Chanwoo Choi
2016-12-08  4:00     ` Viresh Kumar
2017-01-21  7:42       ` Chanwoo Choi
2016-12-07 10:37 ` [PATCH 08/12] PM / OPP: Take kref from _find_opp_table() Viresh Kumar
2017-01-09 23:49   ` Stephen Boyd
2016-12-07 10:37 ` [PATCH 09/12] PM / OPP: Move away from RCU locking Viresh Kumar
2017-01-09 23:57   ` Stephen Boyd
2017-01-10  4:28     ` Viresh Kumar
2016-12-07 10:37 ` [PATCH 10/12] PM / OPP: Simplify _opp_set_availability() Viresh Kumar
2017-01-10  0:00   ` Stephen Boyd
2016-12-07 10:37 ` [PATCH 11/12] PM / OPP: Simplify dev_pm_opp_get_max_volt_latency() Viresh Kumar
2017-01-09 22:40   ` Stephen Boyd
2016-12-07 10:37 ` [PATCH 12/12] PM / OPP: Update Documentation to remove RCU specific bits Viresh Kumar
2017-01-09 22:39   ` Stephen Boyd
2017-01-10  4:39     ` Viresh Kumar
2017-01-13  8:44       ` Stephen Boyd
2016-12-07 23:14 ` [PATCH 00/12] PM / OPP: Use kref and move away from RCU locking Rafael J. Wysocki

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