Andrew,
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 04:17:23PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 15:09:52 -0800 (PST)
> Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Gautham's work is "add lots of complex machinery so cpufreq's existing crap
> works as it was supposed to". We end up with complex machinery as well as
> crappy cpufreq.
>
> The alternative is to rip all that stuff out of cpufreq and then go back
> and reimplement cpufreq cpu-hotplug safety from scratch.
No matter what we do with cpufreq, cpufreq needs to protect itself against
the cpu going away. I am not too confident about the long term viability of the
implicit callback order-based locking. Sooner or later, someone
will add another complex per-cpu subsystem with calls to another
per-cpu subsystem and will violate locking order between the two
subsystems.
IMO, the right thing to do would be to convert lock_cpu_hotplug() to
a get_cpu_hotplug()/put_cpu_hotplug() type semantics and use a more
scalable implementation underneath (as opposed to a global
semaphore/mutex).
We have had some discussion on taking a look at the overall design
of the cpufreq and its cpu drivers themselves, but we need
solve this issue in the short term.
Thanks
Dipankar
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