Re: [BUG cpufreq] Invalid argument on writing to scaling_governor

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Fri Aug 01 2014 - 08:29:22 EST


On Friday, August 01, 2014 06:46:51 AM Prarit Bhargava wrote:
>
> On 08/01/2014 06:43 AM, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > Hi Prarit,
> >
> > I noticed that commit dbcbfe6aa0d61ae5e13cab43b30802482007c199 ("cpufreq: hold
> > policy->rwsem for duration of changing governors") will cause this problem:
> >
> > root@nhm4 ~# echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/cpufreq/scaling_governor
> > -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
> >
> > root@nhm4 ~# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors
> > conservative userspace powersave ondemand performance
> >
>
> Rafael, this patch needs to be rejected based on my previous comments, most
> notably Saravana was able to reproduce the original problem. I'm going to wait
> for his reproducer and see what I can do.

I've dropped it already. At least as far as I can say it shouldn't be there in
my linux-next branch any more. Can you double check, please?

Rafael

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