Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: Fix locking issues with governors

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 1:14 PM Quentin Perret <qperret@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hey Viresh
>
> On Thursday 25 Jun 2020 at 16:24:16 (+0530), Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > The locking around governors handling isn't adequate currently. The list
> > of governors should never be traversed without locking in place. Also we
> > must make sure the governor isn't removed while it is still referenced
> > by code.
>
> Thanks for having a look at this!
>
> This solves the issue for the reference to policy->last_governor, but
> given that your patch is based on top of
> 20200623142138.209513-3-qperret@xxxxxxxxxx, 'default_governor' needs a
> similar treatment I think.

So I would prefer to rebase the $subject patch from Viresh on top of
the current mainline, apply it first and rebase the "default governor"
series on top of it - and include the changes needed for the default
governor handling in there.

Thanks!