Re: BUG: cpufreq notification broken

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 16:26 -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> > There is another issue with this SRCU change:
> > 
> > The notification comes actually after the real change, which is bad. We
> > try to make the TSC usable by backing it with pm_timer accross such
> > states, but this behaviour breaks the safety code.
> 
> I don't understand.  Sending notifications is completely separate from 
> setting up the notifier chain's head.  The patch you mentioned didn't 
> touch the code that sends the notifications.

Yeah, my bad. It just uses rcu based locking, but its still synchronous.

I have to dig deeper, why the change of the frequency happens _before_
the notifier arrives.

	tglx


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