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With WARN_ON addition to kobject_init() [ http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19/2.6.19-mm1/dont-use/broken-out/gregkh-driver-kobject-warn.patch ] I started seeing following WARNING on CPU offline followed by online on my x86_64 system. WARNING at lib/kobject.c:172 kobject_init() Call Trace: [<ffffffff8020ab45>] dump_trace+0xaa/0x3ef [<ffffffff8020aec4>] show_trace+0x3a/0x50 [<ffffffff8020b0f6>] dump_stack+0x15/0x17 [<ffffffff80350abc>] kobject_init+0x3f/0x8a [<ffffffff80350be1>] kobject_register+0x1a/0x3e [<ffffffff803bbd89>] sysdev_register+0x5b/0xf9 [<ffffffff80211d0b>] mce_create_device+0x77/0xf4 [<ffffffff80211dc2>] mce_cpu_callback+0x3a/0xe5 [<ffffffff805632fd>] notifier_call_chain+0x26/0x3b [<ffffffff8023f6f3>] raw_notifier_call_chain+0x9/0xb [<ffffffff802519bf>] _cpu_up+0xb4/0xdc [<ffffffff80251a12>] cpu_up+0x2b/0x42 [<ffffffff803bef00>] store_online+0x4a/0x72 [<ffffffff803bb6ce>] sysdev_store+0x24/0x26 [<ffffffff802baaa2>] sysfs_write_file+0xcf/0xfc [<ffffffff8027fc6f>] vfs_write+0xae/0x154 [<ffffffff80280418>] sys_write+0x47/0x6f [<ffffffff8020963e>] system_call+0x7e/0x83 DWARF2 unwinder stuck at system_call+0x7e/0x83 Leftover inexact backtrace: This is a false positive as mce.c is unregistering/registering sysfs interfaces cleanly on hotplug. kref_put() and conditional decrement of refcnt seems to be the root cause for this and the patch below resolves the issue for me. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
65 lines
1.6 KiB
C
65 lines
1.6 KiB
C
/*
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* kref.c - library routines for handling generic reference counted objects
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*
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* Copyright (C) 2004 Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
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* Copyright (C) 2004 IBM Corp.
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*
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* based on lib/kobject.c which was:
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* Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
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*
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* This file is released under the GPLv2.
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*
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*/
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#include <linux/kref.h>
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#include <linux/module.h>
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/**
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* kref_init - initialize object.
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* @kref: object in question.
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*/
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void kref_init(struct kref *kref)
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{
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atomic_set(&kref->refcount,1);
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}
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/**
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* kref_get - increment refcount for object.
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* @kref: object.
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*/
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void kref_get(struct kref *kref)
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{
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WARN_ON(!atomic_read(&kref->refcount));
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atomic_inc(&kref->refcount);
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}
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/**
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* kref_put - decrement refcount for object.
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* @kref: object.
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* @release: pointer to the function that will clean up the object when the
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* last reference to the object is released.
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* This pointer is required, and it is not acceptable to pass kfree
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* in as this function.
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*
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* Decrement the refcount, and if 0, call release().
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* Return 1 if the object was removed, otherwise return 0. Beware, if this
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* function returns 0, you still can not count on the kref from remaining in
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* memory. Only use the return value if you want to see if the kref is now
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* gone, not present.
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*/
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int kref_put(struct kref *kref, void (*release)(struct kref *kref))
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{
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WARN_ON(release == NULL);
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WARN_ON(release == (void (*)(struct kref *))kfree);
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if (atomic_dec_and_test(&kref->refcount)) {
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release(kref);
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return 1;
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}
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return 0;
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}
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EXPORT_SYMBOL(kref_init);
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EXPORT_SYMBOL(kref_get);
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EXPORT_SYMBOL(kref_put);
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