RE: PM branch rebased to 2.6.29... for real this time

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Hilman [mailto:khilman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 9:37 PM
> To: Kim Kyuwon
> Cc: Premi, Sanjeev; linux-omap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Nayak, Rajendra
> Subject: Re: PM branch rebased to 2.6.29... for real this time
> 
> Yes, this locking problem requires Rajendra's patchset which 
> needs to be 
> updated for the PM branch.

I will send the updated patch set on the latest PM branch maybe later today.

> 
> Kevin
> 
> Kim Kyuwon wrote:
> > Hi Kevin, Sanjeev,
> > 
> > I'm having the same problem.
> > 
> > when clk_set_rate() is invoked in omap_cpu_init() as shown below:
> > 
> > 	clk_set_rate(mpu_clk, policy->cpuinfo.max_freq * 1000);
> > 
> > It acquires the clocks mutex by the next statement.
> > 
> > 	mutex_lock(&clocks_mutex);
> > 
> > But after invoking arch_clock->clk_set_rate() in the middle of
> > clk_set_rate(), clock_set_rate() is invoked again. So 
> deadlock occurs
> > due to mutex_lock() in clock_set_rate().
> > 
> > I think setting the default governor can not help this deadlock.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Kyuwon
> > 
> > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Kevin Hilman
> > <khilman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> "Premi, Sanjeev" <premi@xxxxxx> writes:
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >>>> Sounds to me like CPUfreq is changing frequencies during 
> bootup.  Did
> >>>> you select ondemand as the default CPUfreq governor?
> >>> [sp] Yes. This is what I feel too. Only I was not clear 
> why the process
> >>> gets stuck at WFI. Haven't been able to debug further. So far...
> >>>
> >>>> If so, can you try with performance as the default governor.
> >>> [sp] It was performance governor only.
> >>>
> >>>> If you're already using performance, then u-boot is 
> setting a slower
> >>>> speed and CPUfreq may decide to change it during boot.
> >>> [sp] That is the case.
> >>>
> >> Can you try setting the default governor to userspace so 
> that no DVFS
> >> changes will happen during boot?
> >>
> >> Kevin
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