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Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 19:25:18 +0530
From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][experimantal] cpufreq: governor: Use an atomic variable
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On 08-12-15, 15:19, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> We know what should be done.  We need to wait for the timer function to
> complete, then cancel the work item spawned by it (if any) and then
> cancel the timers set by that work item.

Yeah, there is no race, but it looks ugly to me. I have written it
earlier, and then the spinlock thing looked better to me. :)

-- 
viresh