Re: [Bug #13424] possible deadlock when doing governor switching

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

* Rafael J. Wysocki (rjw@xxxxxxx) wrote:
> This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report
> of regressions introduced between 2.6.29 and 2.6.30.
> 
> The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
> introduced between 2.6.29 and 2.6.30.  Please verify if it still should
> be listed and let me know (either way).
> 

Yep, it still exists. Venkatesh Pallipadi from Intel is working on it.
We need to figure out a proper way to fix policy rwlock vs dbs_mutex vs
timer mutex dependency.

Mathieu

> 
> Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13424
> Subject		: possible deadlock when doing governor switching
> Submitter	: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date		: 2009-05-31 16:36 (29 days old)
> References	: http://www.spinics.net/lists/cpufreq/msg00711.html
> Handled-By	: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> 

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