Re: [PATCH 1/2] cpufreq: Add governor operation ongoing flag

[Viresh Kumar]

On 14 August 2013 13:49, Xiaoguang Chen <chenxg.marvell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes, "START (If STOP passed)", this is important,  we don't have this
> patch on our code base, So even Process B's STOP failed(as governor
> enable flag is set to false by process A already ), it can still do
> START operation, So my problem occurs.
> My problem is that I see ondemand governor is started twice during
> frequent governor switch and cpu hotplug stress test.
>
> The After seeing your patch for the return value checking, I think my
> problem should not occur.
> This issue really botherred me for a long time. :(

Exactly, the problem was users of this API were abusing it as they didn't
cared for its return value. I hope that is fixed widely now and in case
some places are still left, they should be fixed as well.

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viresh
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