Hi Viresh,

On 2017년 09월 21일 05:25, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> The notifier callbacks may want to call some OPP helper routines which
> may try to take the same opp_table->lock again and cause a deadlock. One
> such usecase was reported by Chanwoo Choi, where calling
> dev_pm_opp_disable() leads us to the devfreq's OPP notifier handler,
> which further calls dev_pm_opp_find_freq_floor() and it deadlocks.
> 
> We don't really need the opp_table->lock to be held across the notifier
> call though, all we want to make sure is that the 'opp' doesn't get
> freed while being used from within the notifier chain. We can do it with
> help of dev_pm_opp_get/put() as well. Let's do it.
> 
> Reported-by: Chanwoo Choi <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <[email protected]>
> ---
> V1->V2:
> - s/Lets/Let's/ in commit log and added Stephen's tag.
> 

Thanks for your fixup. Looks good to me.
IMHO, this patch should be posted to [email protected].

Tested-by: Chanwoo Choi <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Chanwoo Choi <[email protected]>

[snip] 

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Best Regards,
Chanwoo Choi
Samsung Electronics

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