Re: [patch 00/61] ANNOUNCE: lock validator -V1

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On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 04:19:22PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

 > >  > One
 > >  > ---
 > >  > store_scaling_governor takes policy->lock and then calls __cpufreq_set_policy
 > >  > __cpufreq_set_policy calls __cpufreq_governor
 > >  > __cpufreq_governor  calls __cpufreq_driver_target via cpufreq_governor_performance
 > >  > __cpufreq_driver_target calls lock_cpu_hotplug() (which takes the hotplug lock)
 > >  > 
 > >  > 
 > >  > Two
 > >  > ---
 > >  > cpufreq_stats_init lock_cpu_hotplug() and then calls cpufreq_stat_cpu_callback
 > >  > cpufreq_stat_cpu_callback calls cpufreq_update_policy
 > >  > cpufreq_update_policy takes the policy->lock
 > >  > 
 > >  > 
 > >  > so this looks like a real honest AB-BA deadlock to me...
 > > 
 > > This looks a little clearer this morning.  I missed the fact that sys_init_module
 > > isn't completely serialised, only the loading part. ->init routines can and will be
 > > called in parallel.
 > > 
 > > I don't see where cpufreq_update_policy takes policy->lock though.
 > > In my tree it just takes the per-cpu data->lock.
 > 
 > isn't that basically the same lock?

Ugh, I've completely forgotten how this stuff fits together.

Dominik, any clues ?

		Dave

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