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| author | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2013-01-29 11:33:37 +1100 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2013-01-29 11:33:37 +1100 |
| commit | dfd0436ad0ce139467b124c646fa65ee2635e14a (patch) | |
| tree | abf9d83c704417cdd484243c12aeffee6b185aba /drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c | |
| parent | b9818c3312da66f4b83a4a2e8650628be1237cb5 (diff) | |
| parent | 689dfa894c57842a05bf6dc9f97e6bb71ec5f386 (diff) | |
| download | linux-dfd0436ad0ce139467b124c646fa65ee2635e14a.tar.bz2 | |
Merge branch 'merge' into next
Merge "merge" branch to bring in various bug fixes that are
going into 3.8
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c b/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c index 53766f39aadd..3b367973a802 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) |