On Tuesday, February 25, 2014 02:20:10 PM Viresh Kumar wrote:
> Policy must be fully initialized before it is being made available for use by
> others.

True enough.  And the problem is?

> This patch moves some initialization code before making policy available
> for others.

So why/how exactly does this fix the problem?

> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.ku...@linaro.org>
> ---
>  drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 28 ++++++++++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> index cc4f244..110c0cd 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> @@ -1116,6 +1116,20 @@ static int __cpufreq_add_dev(struct device *dev, 
> struct subsys_interface *sif,
>               goto err_set_policy_cpu;
>       }
>  
> +     /* related cpus should atleast have policy->cpus */
> +     cpumask_or(policy->related_cpus, policy->related_cpus, policy->cpus);
> +
> +     /*
> +      * affected cpus must always be the one, which are online. We aren't
> +      * managing offline cpus here.
> +      */
> +     cpumask_and(policy->cpus, policy->cpus, cpu_online_mask);
> +
> +     if (!frozen) {
> +             policy->user_policy.min = policy->min;
> +             policy->user_policy.max = policy->max;
> +     }
> +
>       write_lock_irqsave(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags);
>       for_each_cpu(j, policy->cpus)
>               per_cpu(cpufreq_cpu_data, j) = policy;
> @@ -1169,20 +1183,6 @@ static int __cpufreq_add_dev(struct device *dev, 
> struct subsys_interface *sif,
>               }
>       }
>  
> -     /* related cpus should atleast have policy->cpus */
> -     cpumask_or(policy->related_cpus, policy->related_cpus, policy->cpus);
> -
> -     /*
> -      * affected cpus must always be the one, which are online. We aren't
> -      * managing offline cpus here.
> -      */
> -     cpumask_and(policy->cpus, policy->cpus, cpu_online_mask);
> -
> -     if (!frozen) {
> -             policy->user_policy.min = policy->min;
> -             policy->user_policy.max = policy->max;
> -     }
> -
>       blocking_notifier_call_chain(&cpufreq_policy_notifier_list,
>                                    CPUFREQ_START, policy);
>  
> 

-- 
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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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