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| Started by | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> |
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| First post | 2015-07-17 00:50 +0200 |
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Re: [PATCH 2/2] cpufreq: Properly handle errors from cpufreq_init_policy() "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2015-07-17 00:50 +0200
| From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> |
|---|---|
| Date | 2015-07-17 00:50 +0200 |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] cpufreq: Properly handle errors from cpufreq_init_policy() |
| Message-ID | <pN08x-3AR-7@gated-at.bofh.it> |
On Thursday, July 16, 2015 10:16:14 AM Jon Medhurst wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-07-16 at 02:32 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Wednesday, July 08, 2015 04:50:23 PM Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > > On 08-07-15, 12:17, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote:
> > > > I tried these patches without the earlier "cpufreq: Initialize the
> > > > governor again while restoring policy" patch.
> > > >
> > > > The result is that the error when bringing a cpu online is with flagged
> > > > up with a kernel message:
> > > >
> > > > cpufreq: cpufreq_add_dev: Failed to initialize policy for cpu: 1 (-16)
> > > >
> > > > and afterwards, the sysfs entries that I was poking and causing the
> > > > crash aren't present. So looks like this patch has done what we want,
> > > > and cleaned things up after an error. So...
> > > >
> > > > Tested-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for the prompt fix.
> > >
> > > And thanks for your help in getting these tested :)
> >
> > Both queued up for 4.3, thanks!
>
> The crash I was getting was a regression caused by changes that went
> into 4.2-rc1.
>
> Indeed, the first patch from Viresh is marked:
>
> Fixes: 18bf3a124ef8 ("cpufreq: Mark policy->governor = NULL for inactive policies")
> For 4.2-rc
>
> And I am having to carry that first patch to keep two ARM big.LITTLE
> platforms working.
That one is going into 4.2-rc, I'm about to send a pull request with it.
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