Re: [PATCH V3 1/5] cpufreq: ondemand: Drop unnecessary locks from update_sampling_rate()

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Tuesday, October 13, 2015 01:39:01 PM Viresh Kumar wrote:
> 'timer_mutex' is required to sync work-handlers of policy->cpus.
> update_sampling_rate() is just canceling the works and queuing them
> again. This isn't protecting anything at all in update_sampling_rate()
> and is not gonna be of any use.
> 
> Even if a work-handler is already running for a CPU,
> cancel_delayed_work_sync() will wait for it to finish.
> 
> Drop these unnecessary locks.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>

I'm queuing this up for 4.4, although I think that the changelog is not right.

While at it, what are the race conditions the lock is protecting against?

Thanks,
Rafael

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