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[CPUFREQ] Fix a kobject reference bug related to managed CPUs

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The first offline/online cycle is successful, the second not.
Doing:
echo 0 >cpu1/online
echo 1 >cpu1/online
echo 0 >cpu1/online

The last command will trigger:
Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [  593.210125] ------------[ cut here ]------------
Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [  593.210139] WARNING: at lib/kref.c:43 kref_get+0x23/0x2b()
Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [  593.210144] Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [  593.210148] Modules linked in: powernow_k8
Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [  593.210158] Pid: 378, comm: kondemand/2 Tainted: G        W  2.6.31-rc2 #38
Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [  593.210163] Call Trace:
Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [  593.210171]  [<ffffffff812008e8>] ? kref_get+0x23/0x2b
Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [  593.210181]  [<ffffffff81041926>] warn_slowpath_common+0x77/0xa4
Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [  593.210190]  [<ffffffff81041962>] warn_slowpath_null+0xf/0x11
Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [  593.210198]  [<ffffffff812008e8>] kref_get+0x23/0x2b
Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [  593.210206]  [<ffffffff811ffa19>] kobject_get+0x1a/0x22
Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [  593.210214]  [<ffffffff813e815d>] cpufreq_cpu_get+0x8a/0xcb
Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [  593.210222]  [<ffffffff813e87d1>] __cpufreq_driver_getavg+0x1d/0x67
Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [  593.210231]  [<ffffffff813ea18f>] do_dbs_timer+0x158/0x27f
Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [  593.210240]  [<ffffffff810529ea>] worker_thread+0x200/0x313
...

The output continues on every do_dbs_timer ondemand freq checking poll.
This regression was introduced by git commit:
3f4a782b5c

The policy is released when the cpufreq device is removed in:
__cpufreq_remove_dev():
	/* if this isn't the CPU which is the parent of the kobj, we
	 * only need to unlink, put and exit
	 */

Not creating the symlink is not sever at all.
As long as:
sysfs_remove_link(&sys_dev->kobj, "cpufreq");
handles it gracefully that the symlink did not exist.
Possibly no error should be returned at all, because ondemand
governor would still provide the same functionality.
Userspace in userspace gov case might be confused if the link
is missing.

Resolves http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13903

CC: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
CC: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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Thomas Renninger 2009-07-29 11:26:20 +02:00 committed by Dave Jones
parent 42c74b84c6
commit d5194decd0
1 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -858,6 +858,8 @@ static int cpufreq_add_dev(struct sys_device *sys_dev)
/* Check for existing affected CPUs.
* They may not be aware of it due to CPU Hotplug.
* cpufreq_cpu_put is called when the device is removed
* in __cpufreq_remove_dev()
*/
managed_policy = cpufreq_cpu_get(j);
if (unlikely(managed_policy)) {
@ -884,7 +886,7 @@ static int cpufreq_add_dev(struct sys_device *sys_dev)
ret = sysfs_create_link(&sys_dev->kobj,
&managed_policy->kobj,
"cpufreq");
if (!ret)
if (ret)
cpufreq_cpu_put(managed_policy);
/*
* Success. We only needed to be added to the mask.