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authorDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2013-02-08 12:10:18 +1000
committerDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2013-02-08 12:10:18 +1000
commit6dc1c49da6dd3bf020a66b2a135b9625ac01c2c7 (patch)
tree38a6c5d4896de01449e9d224088ae223161fcd3c /drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
parentcd17ef4114ad5c514b17e6a0bb02a309ab90b692 (diff)
parent5845b81bdad374f98f809a658ec747d92c9595c4 (diff)
Merge branch 'fbcon-locking-fixes' of ssh://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux into drm-next
This pulls in most of Linus tree up to -rc6, this fixes the worst lockdep reported issues and re-enables fbcon lockdep. (not the fbcon maintainer) * 'fbcon-locking-fixes' of ssh://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (529 commits) Revert "Revert "console: implement lockdep support for console_lock"" fbcon: fix locking harder fb: Yet another band-aid for fixing lockdep mess fb: rework locking to fix lock ordering on takeover
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c b/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
index 53766f39aad..3b367973a80 100644
--- a/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
+++ b/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
@@ -994,6 +994,11 @@ module_exit(devfreq_exit);
* @freq: The frequency given to target function
* @flags: Flags handed from devfreq framework.
*
+ * Locking: This function must be called under rcu_read_lock(). opp is a rcu
+ * protected pointer. The reason for the same is that the opp pointer which is
+ * returned will remain valid for use with opp_get_{voltage, freq} only while
+ * under the locked area. The pointer returned must be used prior to unlocking
+ * with rcu_read_unlock() to maintain the integrity of the pointer.
*/
struct opp *devfreq_recommended_opp(struct device *dev, unsigned long *freq,
u32 flags)