Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: Initialize the governor again while restoring policy

[Viresh Kumar]

On 08-07-15, 10:27, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote:
> I believe this also fixes the other issue I mentioned (nullptr deref in
> in arm_big_little driver). To test that, after applying this patch, I
> modified the code to force __cpufreq_governor to still return an error
> when a cpu is hotpluged back in. Now the arm_big_little driver doesn't
> get called when I manually poke scaling_setspeed, presumably because
> policy->governor==NULL prevents that from reaching the driver?

I would like to fix that issue without using this patch as we aren't
cleaning up things properly on errors today. I am almost done with the
patches, and will send them to you shortly. Please give them a try
without this patch.

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viresh
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