Re: [PATCH 1/2] CPUFREQ: Remove unneeded dbs_mutexes from ondemand and conservative governors

[Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>]

Hi Pavel,

On Tuesday 30 June 2009 08:33:39 Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Thu 2009-06-25 16:01:24, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > Comment from Venkatesh:
> > ...
> > This mutex is just serializing the changes to those variables. I could't
> > think of any functionality issues of not having the lock as such.
> > 
> > -> rip it out.
> > 
> > CC: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
> 
> >  static struct dbs_tuners {
> > @@ -236,10 +222,7 @@ static ssize_t store_sampling_down_factor(struct cpufreq_policy *unused,
> >  	if (ret != 1 || input > MAX_SAMPLING_DOWN_FACTOR || input < 1)
> >  		return -EINVAL;
> >  
> > -	mutex_lock(&dbs_mutex);
> >  	dbs_tuners_ins.sampling_down_factor = input;
> > -	mutex_unlock(&dbs_mutex);
> > -
> 
> You'd need to make s_down_factor atomic_t for this to work....
Can you provide a userspace scenario (or tell which kind of event must
happen in between), that this would cause problems, please.

Thanks,

  Thomas