* Ingo Molnar (mingo@xxxxxxx) wrote: > > * venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx <venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Since recent chanegs to ondemand and conservative governor, there > > have been multiple reports of lockdep issues in cpufreq. Patch > > series takes care of these problems. > > > > This is the next attempt following the one here, which was not a > > complete fix. > > http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0906.3/01073.html > > > > I am currently running some stress tests to make sure there are no > > issues with these patches. But, wanted to send them out for > > review/comments/testing before I head out for the long weekend. > > > > If this patchset seems sane, the first patch in the patchset > > should also get into 30.stable. > > Btw., FYI, because my test-systems were frequently triggering those > bugs, i kept testing the following series from you and Mathieu in > -tip: > > ecf8b04: cpufreq: Define dbs_mutex purpose and cleanup its usage conservative gov > b08c597: cpufreq: Define dbs_mutex purpose and cleanup its usage > 0807e30: cpufreq: remove rwsem lock from CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP call (second call site) > > So that fix-series, while probably not complete (given that you sent > a v2 series), worked well in practice and gets my: > > Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> > > Is the delta between this (tested) series and your v2 version > significant? If not it might make sense to shape it as a delta patch > to the v1 series, if that looks clean enough - to preserve testing > results. The delta is very significant. The purpose of each lock changes quite a bit. I'm preparing a patch serie that should just fix the problem without significant locking semantic modification. (not that I have time to do this, but I end up spending more time looking at the proposed solutions than doing it..) ;) Mathieu > > Ingo > -- Mathieu Desnoyers OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
