Re: [PATCH v4] cpufreq: fix governor start/stop race condition

[Xiaoguang Chen]

2013/6/12 Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 12 June 2013 14:39, Xiaoguang Chen <chenxg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>         ret = policy->governor->governor(policy, event);
>
> We again reached to the same problem. We shouldn't call
> this between taking locks, otherwise recursive locks problems
> would be seen again.

But this is not the same lock as the deadlock case, it is a new lock,
and only used in this function. no other functions use this lock.
I don't know how can we get dead lock again?

Thanks
Xiaoguang
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