Re: CPUFREQ-CPUHOTPLUG: Possible circular locking dependency

[Ingo Molnar]

* Gautham R Shenoy <ego@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So do we
> - Rethink the strategy of per-subsystem hotcpu-locks ?
> 
>   OR
>   
> - Think of a way to straighten out the super-convoluted cpufreq code ?

i'm still wondering what the conceptual source of this fundamental 
locking complexity in cpufreq (and hotplug) is - it is not intuitive to 
me at all. Could you try to explain that?

	Ingo
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