On 05-02-16, 03:14, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]> > > Every governor relying on the common code in cpufreq_governor.c > has to provide its own mutex in struct common_dbs_data. However, > there actually is no need to have a separate mutex per governor > for this purpose, they may be using the same global mutex just > fine. Accordingly, introduce a single common mutex for that and > drop the mutex field from struct common_dbs_data. > > That at least will ensure that the mutex is always present and > initialized regardless of what the particular governors do. > > Another benefit is that the common code does not need a pointer to > a governor-related structure to get to the mutex which sometimes > helps. > > Finally, it makes the code generally easier to follow. > > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]> > Acked-by: Saravana Kannan <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <[email protected]> -- viresh
