Re: [PATCH 4/5] thermal/core: Move the thermal zone lock out of the governors

From: Daniel Lezcano
Date: Tue Oct 04 2022 - 10:21:34 EST


On 04/10/2022 16:14, Guenter Roeck wrote:
On Fri, Aug 05, 2022 at 05:38:33PM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
All the governors throttling ops are taking/releasing the lock at the
beginning and the end of the function.

We can move the mutex to the throttling call site instead.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>
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drivers/thermal/gov_bang_bang.c | 4 +---
drivers/thermal/gov_fair_share.c | 4 +---
drivers/thermal/gov_power_allocator.c | 16 ++++++----------
drivers/thermal/gov_step_wise.c | 4 +---
drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c | 2 ++

This doesn't drop the lock from drivers/thermal/gov_user_space.c.
Is that on purpose ?

No, it is an oversight. It was fixed after by Rafael

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