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    [PATCH] cpufreq: make the transition_notifier chain use SRCU · b4dfdbb3
    Alan Stern authored
    This patch (as762) changes the cpufreq_transition_notifier_list from a
    blocking_notifier_head to an srcu_notifier_head.  This will prevent errors
    caused attempting to call down_read() to access the notifier chain at a
    time when interrupts must remain disabled, during system suspend.
    
    It's not clear to me whether this is really necessary; perhaps the chain
    could be made into an atomic_notifier.  However a couple of the callout
    routines do use blocking operations, so this approach seems safer.
    
    The head of the notifier chain needs to be initialized before use; this is
    done by an __init routine at core_initcall time.  If this turns out not to
    be a good choice, it can easily be changed.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
    Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
    Cc: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@gmail.com>
    Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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