Hi, i found the cause for the bug: it was commit "[CPUFREQ] remove rwsem lock from CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP call (second call site)". It release the rwsem lock in the middle of __cpufreq_set_policy, that is not a good idea. There are no dead lock, which that patch solved, because cpufreq_ondemand and cpufreq_conservative don't use the rwsem lock in do_dbs_timer anymore. Regards, Andrej Gelenberg