Kernel panics when trying to set the sampling rate before the ondemand governor CPUFREQ_GOV_START notification is received. [<c078e500>] panic+0x15c [<c0012354>] die+0x19c [<c0018e60>] __do_kernel_fault+0x64 [<c0793660>] do_page_fault+0x3b8 [<c0008514>] do_DataAbort+0x134 [<c0791c58>] __dabt_svc+0x38 [<c02b5c68>] __list_add+0x38 [<c078f1b0>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x128 [<c078fc68>] mutex_lock+0x20 [<c05409c4>] store_sampling_rate+0x98 [<c02a6648>] kobj_attr_store+0x18 [<c0183124>] sysfs_write_file+0x108 [<c0131758>] vfs_write+0xac [<c013188c>] sys_write+0x3c [<c000e340>] ret_fast_syscall+0x0 Initialize the mutex as part of cpufreq_gov_dbs_init(). Change-Id: Ie9014407d724d7a0a81c076be47df5d08f513407 Signed-off-by: Praveen Chidambaram <pchidamb@codeaurora.org>