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From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>,
	"cpufreq@vger.kernel.org" <cpufreq@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] cpufreq: Prevent problems in update_policy_cpu() if last_cpu == new_cpu
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 12:00:48 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52315F98.8020305@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKohpoktJkAWf2xvRKmz3ZUW3wiRqHYdaR6d_HKsXZPXiiK53Q@mail.gmail.com>

On 09/12/2013 12:01 PM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 12 September 2013 11:51, Srivatsa S. Bhat
> <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> That said, indeed currently there is no code in cpufreq that invokes the
>> function with last == new. So its not like we are masking an existing bug with
>> this patch. If you like, perhaps we can change this patch to print a warning
>> when it gets input values with last == new? That prevents disasters and also
>> warns when some code is buggy. Sounds like a win-win.
> 
> Exactly what I thought while I was midway reading your mail :)
> Probably a WARN().. So that we don't miss any other bugs :)
> 

Looking at the rate at which we are bumping into each others thoughts, I think
maybe we should switch from email to IRC ;-) ;-)

Regards,
Srivatsa S. Bhat


  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-12  6:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-11 20:12 [PATCH 1/3] cpufreq: Fix crash in cpufreq-stats during suspend/resume Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-09-11 20:13 ` [PATCH 2/3] cpufreq: Restructure if/else block to avoid unintended behavior Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-09-11 20:13 ` [PATCH 3/3] cpufreq: Prevent problems in update_policy_cpu() if last_cpu == new_cpu Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-09-12  6:09   ` Viresh Kumar
2013-09-12  6:21     ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-09-12  6:31       ` Viresh Kumar
2013-09-12  6:30         ` Srivatsa S. Bhat [this message]
2013-09-12  6:44           ` Viresh Kumar
2013-09-12  7:12             ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-09-12 10:40               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-09-12 10:30                 ` Viresh Kumar
2013-09-12 10:41                 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-09-11 22:55 ` [PATCH 1/3] cpufreq: Fix crash in cpufreq-stats during suspend/resume Rafael J. Wysocki

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