Re: [PATCH 2/5] cpufreq: governor: Create separate sysfs-ops

[Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>]

On 03-02-16, 13:42, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > +static ssize_t governor_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct attribute *attr,
> > +                            char *buf)
> > +{
> > +       struct dbs_data *dbs_data = to_dbs_data(kobj);
> > +       struct governor_attr *gattr = to_gov_attr(attr);
> > +       int ret = -EIO;
> > +
> > +       down_read(&dbs_data->rwsem);
> > +
> > +       if (gattr->show)
> > +               ret = gattr->show(dbs_data, buf);
> > +
> > +       up_read(&dbs_data->rwsem);
> 
> Do we need the lock here too?
> 
> show() is only going to read the value, isn't it?  And everything u32
> or smaller is read atomically anyway.

Okay, will drop it for now.

> Apart from this it looks good to me.
> 
> When you're ready, please resend the whole series without patch [5/5]
> which is premature IMO.

I have changed that patch a bit, and am dropping just the lock now and
not governor_enable thing. That should be sane enough I believe.

Anyway I will be posting 7 patches now, pick only first 4 if you
aren't confident about the rest.

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viresh