Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: imx6: prorect calls to dev_pm_opp_get_opp_count with RCU lock

[Viresh Kumar]

On 16 December 2014 at 06:20, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> dev_pm_opp_get_opp_count() must be called with RCU lock held.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Not tested at all...
>
>  drivers/cpufreq/imx6q-cpufreq.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/imx6q-cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/imx6q-cpufreq.c
> index 380a90d..851d4fd 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/imx6q-cpufreq.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/imx6q-cpufreq.c
> @@ -200,7 +200,9 @@ static int imx6q_cpufreq_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>          * Just, incase the platform did not supply the OPP
>          * table, it will try to get it.
>          */
> +       rcu_read_lock();
>         num = dev_pm_opp_get_opp_count(cpu_dev);
> +       rcu_read_unlock();
>         if (num < 0) {
>                 ret = of_init_opp_table(cpu_dev);
>                 if (ret < 0) {
> @@ -211,7 +213,9 @@ static int imx6q_cpufreq_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>                 /* Because we have added the OPPs here, we must free them */
>                 free_opp = true;
>
> +               rcu_read_lock();
>                 num = dev_pm_opp_get_opp_count(cpu_dev);
> +               rcu_read_unlock();
>                 if (num < 0) {
>                         ret = num;
>                         dev_err(cpu_dev, "no OPP table is found: %d\n", ret);

This one looks fine for sure but I was wondering for the users which just
need to call opp-count from under the locks, what about something like:

dev_pm_opp_get_opp_count_locked() ?

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viresh
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