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From: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
	stable@kernel.org, hidave.darkstar@gmail.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cpufreq@vger.kernel.org,
	rjw@sisk.pl, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi,
	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
	davej@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu, kernel-testers@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH 1/2] CPUFREQ: Remove unneeded dbs_mutexes from ondemand and conservative governors
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 11:07:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907011107.40045.trenn@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090630233912.GA3709@kroah.com>

On Wednesday 01 July 2009 01:39:12 Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 07:14:52PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > * Greg KH (greg@kroah.com) wrote:
> > > I don't see the patch below in Linus's tree.  If it's there, what is the
> > > git commit id?
> > > 
> > 
> > As I pointed out in an earlier reply, this patch is bogus and adds racy
> > data structure updates. It should not be merged.
> 
> Ok, dropped.

Yes, sorry for not mentioning.

I looked at it again, but gave up after a while, I am not able
to provide a safe .30 fix for that, risk of making things worse
is too high...
My last thought was that the main culprit is that .governor() should
always be called with the rwsem held. I look at it further and try
to ease up things for future kernels, but can't spent that much
time on it currently.

   Thomas

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-01  9:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-04 21:00 [PATCH] kvm: fix kvm reboot crash when MAXSMP is used Yinghai Lu
2009-06-04 21:01 ` [PATCH] cpumask: alloc blank cpumask left over Yinghai Lu
2009-06-05  4:58   ` Rusty Russell
2009-06-05  5:18     ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-05  5:56     ` Yinghai Lu
2009-06-05 13:41       ` Rusty Russell
2009-06-05 17:34         ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-05 17:46           ` Yinghai Lu
2009-06-05 17:57           ` Yinghai Lu
2009-06-06 23:40             ` Rusty Russell
2009-06-06 23:43           ` Rusty Russell
2009-06-06  9:22         ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-06  9:36           ` Yinghai Lu
2009-06-06  9:39             ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-06 10:57               ` Yinghai Lu
2009-06-06 21:50                 ` [PATCH 1/6] cpumask: introduce zalloc_cpumask_var Yinghai Lu
2009-06-06 21:51                   ` Subject: [PATCH 2/6] cpumask: alloc zeroed cpumask for static cpumask_var_ts Yinghai Lu
2009-06-06 21:52                   ` [PATCH 3/6] kvm: fix kvm reboot crash when MAXSMP is used Yinghai Lu
2009-06-06 21:53                   ` [PATCH 4/6] x86/cpufreq: use cpumask_copy instead of = Yinghai Lu
2009-06-09  6:57                     ` Rusty Russell
2009-06-09  8:13                       ` Yinghai Lu
2009-06-10  4:20                         ` Rusty Russell
2009-06-10 13:39                           ` Dave Jones
2009-06-10 17:01                             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-09 15:46                       ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-09 16:28                         ` Dave Jones
2009-06-09 16:41                           ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-10  4:55                             ` Rusty Russell
2009-06-10  6:22                         ` Rusty Russell
2009-06-10 11:10                           ` S06cpuspeed/2637 is trying to acquire lock (&(&dbs_info->work)->work (was: Re: [PATCH 4/6] x86/cpufreq: use cpumask_copy instead of =) Ingo Molnar
2009-06-10 20:58                             ` Dave Jones
2009-06-11 10:52                               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-20 12:48                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-21 19:55                                   ` Thomas Renninger
2009-06-23 18:17                                     ` [PATCH] cpufreq: remove dbs_mutex Ingo Molnar
2009-06-23 18:40                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-23 18:51                                         ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2009-06-23 19:14                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-23 19:24                                             ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2009-06-23 19:32                                               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-25 14:01                                                 ` Fix dead lock in cpufreq for CPU hotplug and suspend for 2.6.30.stable Thomas Renninger
2009-06-25 14:06                                                   ` Thomas Renninger
2009-06-25 14:01                                                 ` [PATCH 1/2] CPUFREQ: Remove unneeded dbs_mutexes from ondemand and conservative governors Thomas Renninger
2009-06-25 14:25                                                   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-06-25 15:03                                                     ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2009-06-25 22:17                                                     ` Thomas Renninger
2009-06-25 22:26                                                       ` Thomas Renninger
2009-06-30  6:33                                                   ` Pavel Machek
2009-07-03 10:10                                                     ` Thomas Renninger
2009-07-05 19:46                                                       ` Pavel Machek
2009-06-30 22:58                                                   ` [stable] " Greg KH
2009-06-30 23:14                                                     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-06-30 23:39                                                       ` Greg KH
2009-07-01  9:07                                                         ` Thomas Renninger [this message]
2009-06-25 14:01                                                 ` [PATCH 2/2] remove rwsem lock from CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP call (second call site) Thomas Renninger
2009-06-10 19:42                           ` [PATCH 4/6] x86/cpufreq: use cpumask_copy instead of = Langsdorf, Mark
2009-06-11  2:34                             ` Rusty Russell
2009-09-21 16:44                               ` Langsdorf, Mark
2009-06-06 21:55                   ` [PATCH 5/6] core: use cpumask_copy instead of = for cpus_allowed in fork Yinghai Lu
2009-06-06 21:56                   ` [PATCH 6/6] x86/cpufreq: don't use SPEEDSTEP with MAXSMP Yinghai Lu
2009-06-06 21:56                   ` [PATCH 1/6] cpumask: introduce zalloc_cpumask_var Andrew Morton
2009-06-06 22:07                     ` Yinghai Lu
2009-06-06 21:58                   ` Linus Torvalds

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