Re: [Patch v3 3/6] cpufreq: qcom-cpufreq-hw: Add dcvs interrupt support

[Thara Gopinath]

On 7/12/21 11:18 PM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 12-07-21, 21:18, Thara Gopinath wrote:
> > So I really need the interrupt to fire and then the timer to kick in and
> > take up the monitoring. I can think of introducing a variable is_disabled
> > which is updated and read under a spinlock. qcom_cpufreq_hw_cpu_exit can
> > hold the spinlock and set is_disabled to true prior to cancelling the work
> > queue or disabling the interrupt. Before re-enabling the interrupt or
> > re-queuing the work in qcom_lmh_dcvs_notify, is_disabled can be read and
> > checked.
>
> Or you can make the lmh_dcvs_poll_work item a pointer and mark it NULL in exit,
> with proper locking etc.

Yes it could work. I will spin the next version with either this or 
introducing a new variable with locking.

> > But does this problem not exist in target_index , fast_switch etc also ? One
> > cpu can be disabling and the other one can be updating the target right?
>
> The race doesn't happen there as cpufreq_unregister_driver() takes care of
> stopping everything before removing the policy. To be more precise, governor's
> ->stop() function is responsible for making sure that frequency won't be updated
> any further.

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