Re: [PATCH 00/13] CPUFreq: Fix {PRE|POST}CHANGE notification sequence

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Wednesday, June 19, 2013 02:22:54 PM Viresh Kumar wrote:
> PRECHANGE and POSTCHANGE notifiers must be called in groups, i.e either both
> should be called or both shouldn't be.
> 
> In case we have started PRECHANGE notifier and found an error, we must call
> POSTCHANGE notifier with freqs.new = freqs.old to guarantee that sequence of
> calling notifiers is complete.
> 
> This isn't obeyed by many of the drivers and core wasn't forcing it.
> 
> This patchset first fixes all the driver to follow it strictly and then adds
> some protection against this. Now, we keep track of the last transaction and see
> if something went wrong.
> 
> Last patch is intentionally kept towards the end, so that git bisect still works
> well for all the faulty drivers.
> 
> This is pushed here and a pull request for 3.11 would be sent after few days.
> 
> git://git.linaro.org/people/vireshk/linux.git cpufreq-fix-notification
> 
> Viresh Kumar (13):
>   cpufreq: acpi: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
>   cpufreq: arm-big-little: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error
>     cases
>   cpufreq: davinci: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
>   cpufreq: dbx500: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
>   cpufreq: e_powersave: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
>   cpufreq: exynos: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
>   cpufreq: imx6q: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
>   cpufreq: omap: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
>   cpufreq: pcc: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
>   cpufreq: powernow-k8: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
>   cpufreq: s3c64xx: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
>   cpufreq: tegra: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
>   cpufreq: make sure frequency transitions are serialized

Patches [1,5,9-10/13] applied to bleeding-edge, the ARM ones I'm expecting
to get from you and [13/13] can wait.

Thanks,
Rafael