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Dave Jones ecf7e4611c [CPUFREQ] Factor out policy setting from cpufreq_add_dev
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-09-01 12:45:14 -04:00
Dave Jones 909a694e33 [CPUFREQ] Factor out interface creation from cpufreq_add_dev
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-09-01 12:45:13 -04:00
Dave Jones 19d6f7ec3e [CPUFREQ] Factor out symlink creation from cpufreq_add_dev
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-09-01 12:45:12 -04:00
Dave Jones 059019a3c3 [CPUFREQ] cleanup up -ENOMEM handling in cpufreq_add_dev
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-09-01 12:45:09 -04:00
Dave Jones 54e6fe167b [CPUFREQ] Reduce scope of cpu_sys_dev in cpufreq_add_dev
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-09-01 12:45:09 -04:00
Dominik Brodowski ce6c3997c2 [CPUFREQ] Re-enable cpufreq suspend and resume code
Commit 4bc5d34135 is broken and causes regressions:

(1) cpufreq_driver->resume() and ->suspend() were only called on
__powerpc__, but you could set them on all architectures. In fact,
->resume() was defined and used before the PPC-related commit
42d4dc3f4e complained about in 4bc5d34135.

(2) Therfore, the resume functions in acpi_cpufreq and speedstep-smi
would never be called.

(3) This means speedstep-smi would be unusuable after suspend or resume.

The _real_ problem was calling cpufreq_driver->get() with interrupts
off, but it re-enabling interrupts on some platforms. Why is ->get()
necessary?

Some systems like to change the CPU frequency behind our
back, especially during BIOS-intensive operations like suspend or
resume. If such systems also use a CPU frequency-dependant timing loop,
delays might be off by large factors. Therefore, we need to ascertain
as soon as possible that the CPU frequency is indeed at the speed we
think it is. You can do this two ways: either setting it anew, or trying
to get it. The latter is what was done, the former also has the same IRQ
issue.

So, let's try something different: defer the checking to after interrupts
are re-enabled, by calling cpufreq_update_policy() (via schedule_work()).
Timings may be off until this later stage, so let's watch out for
resume regressions caused by the deferred handling of frequency changes
behind the kernel's back.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-09-01 12:45:08 -04:00
Dave Jones 4bc5d34135 [CPUFREQ] Make cpufreq suspend code conditional on powerpc.
The suspend code runs with interrupts disabled, and the powerpc workaround we
do in the cpufreq suspend hook calls the drivers ->get method.

powernow-k8's ->get does an smp_call_function_single
which needs interrupts enabled

cpufreq's suspend/resume code was added in 42d4dc3f4e to work around
a hardware problem on ppc powerbooks.  If we make all this code
conditional on powerpc, we avoid the issue above.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-08-04 14:32:11 -04:00
Thomas Renninger d5194decd0 [CPUFREQ] Fix a kobject reference bug related to managed CPUs
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>
2009-08-04 14:32:11 -04:00
Prarit Bhargava 42c74b84c6 [CPUFREQ] Do not set policy for offline cpus
Suspend/Resume fails on multi socket, multi core systems because the cpufreq
code erroneously sets the per_cpu policy_cpu value when a logical cpu is
offline.

This most notably results in missing sysfs files that are used to set the
cpu frequencies of the various cpus.

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-08-04 14:32:10 -04:00
Dave Jones 5e1596f753 [CPUFREQ] Fix compile failure in cpufreq.c
managed_policy is out of scope for the non-smp case.
Declare it locally where used (twice)

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-07-08 19:04:23 -04:00
Mathieu Desnoyers 3f4a782b5c [CPUFREQ] fix (utter) cpufreq_add_dev mess
OK, I've tried to clean it up the best I could, but please test this with
concurrent cpu hotplug and cpufreq add/remove in loops. I'm sure we will make
other interesting findings.

This is step one of fixing the overall locking dependency mess in cpufreq.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
CC: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
CC: rjw@sisk.pl
CC: mingo@elte.hu
CC: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
CC: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
CC: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
CC: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
CC: sven.wegener@stealer.net
CC: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
CC: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-07-06 21:38:28 -04:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 7d26e2d5e2 [CPUFREQ] Eliminate the recent lockdep warnings in cpufreq
Commit b14893a62c although it was very
much needed to properly cleanup ondemand timer, opened-up a can of worms
related to locking dependencies in cpufreq.

Patch here defines the need for dbs_mutex and cleans up its usage in
ondemand governor. This also resolves the lockdep warnings reported here

http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0906.1/01925.html
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0907.0/00820.html

and few others..

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-07-06 21:38:27 -04:00
Yinghai Lu eaa958402e cpumask: alloc zeroed cpumask for static cpumask_var_ts
These are defined as static cpumask_var_t so if MAXSMP is not used,
they are cleared already.  Avoid surprises when MAXSMP is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-09 22:30:27 +09:30
Mathieu Desnoyers 42a06f2166 [CPUFREQ] remove rwsem lock from CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP call
* Rafael J. Wysocki (rjw@sisk.pl) wrote:
> This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report
> of regressions introduced between 2.6.28 and 2.6.29.
>
> The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
> introduced between 2.6.28 and 2.6.29.  Please verify if it still should
> be listed and let me know (either way).
>
>
> Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13186
> Subject		: cpufreq timer teardown problem
> Submitter	: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
> Date		: 2009-04-23 14:00 (24 days old)
> References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124049523515036&w=4
> Handled-By	: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
> Patch		: http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/19754/
> 		  http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/19753/

The patches linked above depend on the following patch to remove
circular locking dependency :

cpufreq: remove rwsem lock from CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP call

(the following issue was faced when using cancel_delayed_work_sync() in the
timer teardown (which fixes a race).

* KOSAKI Motohiro (kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com) wrote:
> Hi
>
> my box output following warnings.
> it seems regression by commit 7ccc7608b836e58fbacf65ee4f8eefa288e86fac.
>
> A: work -> do_dbs_timer()  -> cpu_policy_rwsem
> B: store() -> cpu_policy_rwsem -> cpufreq_governor_dbs() -> work
>
>

Hrm, I think it must be due to my attempt to fix the timer teardown race
in ondemand governor mixed with new locking behavior in 2.6.30-rc.

The rwlock seems to be taken around the whole call to
cpufreq_governor_dbs(), when it should be only taken around accesses to
the locked data, and especially *not* around the call to
dbs_timer_exit().

Reverting my fix attempt would put the teardown race back in place
(replacing the cancel_delayed_work_sync by cancel_delayed_work).
Instead, a proper fix would imply modifying this critical section :

cpufreq.c: __cpufreq_remove_dev()
...
        if (cpufreq_driver->target)
                __cpufreq_governor(data, CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP);

        unlock_policy_rwsem_write(cpu);

To make sure the __cpufreq_governor() callback is not called with rwsem
held. This would allow execution of cancel_delayed_work_sync() without
being nested within the rwsem.

Applies on top of the 2.6.30-rc5 tree.

Required to remove circular dep in teardown of both conservative and
ondemande governors so they can use cancel_delayed_work_sync().
CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP does not modify the policy, therefore this locking seemed
unneeded.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
CC: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
CC: Ben Slusky <sluskyb@paranoiacs.org>
CC: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-05-26 12:04:50 -04:00
Linus Torvalds ada19a31a9 Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq: (35 commits)
  [CPUFREQ] Prevent p4-clockmod from auto-binding to the ondemand governor.
  [CPUFREQ] Make cpufreq-nforce2 less obnoxious
  [CPUFREQ] p4-clockmod reports wrong frequency.
  [CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Use a common exit path.
  [CPUFREQ] Change link order of x86 cpufreq modules
  [CPUFREQ] conservative: remove 10x from def_sampling_rate
  [CPUFREQ] conservative: fixup governor to function more like ondemand logic
  [CPUFREQ] conservative: fix dbs_cpufreq_notifier so freq is not locked
  [CPUFREQ] conservative: amend author's email address
  [CPUFREQ] Use swap() in longhaul.c
  [CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for acpi-cpufreq
  [CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Only print error message once, not per core.
  [CPUFREQ] ondemand/conservative: sanitize sampling_rate restrictions
  [CPUFREQ] ondemand/conservative: deprecate sampling_rate{min,max}
  [CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Always compile powernow-k8 driver with ACPI support
  [CPUFREQ] Introduce /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/cpuinfo_transition_latency
  [CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for powernow-k8
  [CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for ondemand governor.
  [CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for powernow-k7
  [CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for speedstep related drivers.
  ...
2009-03-26 11:04:08 -07:00
Dave Jones 129f8ae9b1 Revert "[CPUFREQ] Disable sysfs ui for p4-clockmod."
This reverts commit e088e4c9cd.

Removing the sysfs interface for p4-clockmod was flagged as a
regression in bug 12826.

Course of action:
 - Find out the remaining causes of overheating, and fix them
   if possible. ACPI should be doing the right thing automatically.
   If it isn't, we need to fix that.
 - mark p4-clockmod ui as deprecated
 - try again with the removal in six months.

It's not really feasible to printk about the deprecation, because
it needs to happen at all the sysfs entry points, which means adding
a lot of strcmp("p4-clockmod".. calls to the core, which.. bleuch.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-03-09 15:07:33 -04:00
Thomas Renninger ed12978453 [CPUFREQ] Introduce /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/cpuinfo_transition_latency
It's not only useful for the ondemand and conservative governors, but
also for userspace daemons to know about the HW transition latency of
the CPU.
It is especially useful for userspace to know about this value when
the ondemand or conservative governors are run. The sampling rate
control value depends on it and for userspace being able to set sane
tuning values there it has to know about the transition latency.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24 22:47:31 -05:00
Dave Jones 29464f2813 [CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for cpufreq core
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-02-24 22:47:29 -05:00
Rusty Russell 835481d9bc cpumask: convert struct cpufreq_policy to cpumask_var_t
Impact: use new cpumask API to reduce memory usage

This is part of an effort to reduce structure sizes for machines
configured with large NR_CPUS.  cpumask_t gets replaced by
cpumask_var_t, which is either struct cpumask[1] (small NR_CPUS) or
struct cpumask * (large NR_CPUS).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-06 09:05:31 +01:00
Mike Chan 187d9f4ed4 [CPUFREQ] Fix on resume, now preserves user policy min/max.
Previously driver resume would always set the current policy min/max with
the cpuinfo min/max, defined by user_policy.min/max. Resulting in a reset
of policy settings when policy.min/max != cpuinfo.min/max when coming out
of suspend. Now user_policy is saved as the policy instead of cpuinfo to
preserve what the user actually set.

Signed-off-by: Mike Chan <mike@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-12-05 15:20:11 -05:00
Matthew Garrett e088e4c9cd [CPUFREQ] Disable sysfs ui for p4-clockmod.
p4-clockmod has a long history of abuse.   It pretends to be a CPU
frequency scaling driver, even though it doesn't actually change
the CPU frequency, but instead just modulates the frequency with
wait-states.
The biggest misconception is that when running at the lower 'frequency'
p4-clockmod is saving power.  This isn't the case, as workloads running
slower take longer to complete, preventing the CPU from entering deep C states.

However p4-clockmod does have a purpose.  It can prevent overheating.
Having it hooked up to the cpufreq interfaces is the wrong way to achieve
cooling however. It should instead be hooked up to ACPI.

This diff introduces a means for a cpufreq driver to register with the
cpufreq core, but not present a sysfs interface.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-12-05 15:20:10 -05:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com bf0b90e357 [CPUFREQ][1/6] cpufreq: Add cpu number parameter to __cpufreq_driver_getavg()
Add a cpu parameter to __cpufreq_driver_getavg(). This is needed for software
cpufreq coordination where policy->cpu may not be same as the CPU on which we
want to getavg frequency.

A follow-on patch will use this parameter to getavg freq from all cpus
in policy->cpus.

Change since last patch. Fix the offline/online and suspend/resume
oops reported by Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com>

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-10-09 13:52:43 -04:00
Julia Lawall f1829e4a37 [CPUFREQ] drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c: Adjust error handling code involving cpufreq_cpu_put
After calling cpufreq_cpu_get, error handling code should call
cpufreq_cpu_put.

The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// <smpl>
@r@
expression x,E;
statement S;
position p1,p2,p3;
@@

(
if ((x = cpufreq_cpu_get@p1(...)) == NULL || ...) S
|
x = cpufreq_cpu_get@p1(...)
... when != x
if (x == NULL || ...) S
)
<...
if@p3 (...) { ... when != cpufreq_cpu_put(x)
                  when != if (x) { ... cpufreq_cpu_put(x); ...}
    return@p2 ...;
}
...>
(
return x;
|
return 0;
|
x = E
|
E = x
|
cpufreq_cpu_put(x)
)

@exists@
position r.p1,r.p2,r.p3;
expression x;
int ret != 0;
statement S;
@@

* x = cpufreq_cpu_get@p1(...)
  <...
* if@p3 (...)
  S
  ...>
* return@p2 \(NULL\|ret\);
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-10-09 13:52:43 -04:00
Thomas Renninger a1531acd43 cpufreq acpi: only call _PPC after cpufreq ACPI init funcs got called already
Ingo Molnar provided a fix to not call _PPC at processor driver
initialization time in "[PATCH] ACPI: fix cpufreq regression" (git
commit e4233dec74)

But it can still happen that _PPC is called at processor driver
initialization time.

This patch should make sure that this is not possible anymore.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-30 09:41:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 26dcce0fab Merge branch 'cpus4096-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'cpus4096-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (31 commits)
  NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in speedstep-centrino.c
  cpumask: Provide a generic set of CPUMASK_ALLOC macros, FIXUP
  NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in cpufreq userspace routines
  NR_CPUS: Replace per_cpu(..., smp_processor_id()) with __get_cpu_var
  NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/genapic_flat_64.c
  NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/genx2apic_uv_x.c
  NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c
  NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c
  cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in lib/smp_processor_id.c, fix
  cpumask: Use optimized CPUMASK_ALLOC macros in the centrino_target
  cpumask: Provide a generic set of CPUMASK_ALLOC macros
  cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in lib/smp_processor_id.c
  cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in kernel/time/tick-common.c
  cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_main.c
  cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
  cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c
  cpumask: Replace cpumask_of_cpu with cpumask_of_cpu_ptr
  Revert "cpumask: introduce new APIs"
  cpumask: make for_each_cpu_mask a bit smaller
  net: Pass reference to cpumask variable in net/sunrpc/svc.c
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c manually
2008-07-23 18:37:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 6d52dcbe56 Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
  [CPUFREQ] cpufreq: remove CVS keywords
  [CPUFREQ] change cpu freq arrays to per_cpu variables
2008-07-21 15:10:37 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 68083e05d7 Merge commit 'v2.6.26-rc9' into cpus4096 2008-07-06 14:23:39 +02:00
Linus Torvalds cc55875e26 Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq
* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
  [CPUFREQ] Fix format string bug.
2008-06-09 11:27:55 -07:00
Chris Wright 326f6a5c9c [CPUFREQ] Fix format string bug.
Format string bug.  Not exploitable, as this is only writable by root,
but worth fixing all the same.

Spotted-by: Ilja van Sprundel <ilja@netric.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-06-09 13:24:55 -04:00
CHIKAMA masaki 879000f944 cpufreq: fix null object access on Transmeta CPU
If cpu specific cpufreq driver(i.e.  longrun) has "setpolicy" function,
governor object isn't set into cpufreq_policy object at "__cpufreq_set_policy"
function in driver/cpufreq/cpufreq.c .

This causes a null object access at "store_scaling_setspeed" and
"show_scaling_setspeed" function in driver/cpufreq/cpufreq.c when reading or
writing through /sys interface (ex.  cat
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed)

Addresses:
	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10654
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443354

Signed-off-by: CHIKAMA Masaki <masaki.chikama@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-06 11:29:11 -07:00
Lothar Waßmann dca0261393 [CPUFREQ] fix double unlock of cpu_policy_rwsem in drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
In drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c the function cpufreq_add_dev() takes the
error exit 'err_out_unregister' from different places once with the
'cpu_policy_rwsem' lock held, once with the lock released:
|		if (ret)
|			goto err_out_unregister;
|	}
|
|	policy->governor = NULL; /* to assure that the starting sequence is
|				  * run in cpufreq_set_policy */
|
|	/* set default policy */
|	ret = __cpufreq_set_policy(policy, &new_policy);
|	policy->user_policy.policy = policy->policy;
|	policy->user_policy.governor = policy->governor;
|
|	unlock_policy_rwsem_write(cpu);
|
|	if (ret) {
|		dprintk("setting policy failed\n");
|		goto err_out_unregister;
|	}

This leads to the following error message in case of a failing
__cpufreq_set_policy() call:
=====================================
[ BUG: bad unlock balance detected! ]
-------------------------------------
swapper/1 is trying to release lock (&per_cpu(cpu_policy_rwsem, cpu)) at:
[<c01b4564>] unlock_policy_rwsem_write+0x30/0x40
but there are no more locks to release!

other info that might help us debug this:
1 lock held by swapper/1:
 #0:  (sysdev_drivers_lock){--..}, at: [<c018fd18>] sysdev_driver_register+0x74/0x130

stack backtrace:
[<c002f588>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x14) from [<c00692fc>] (print_unlock_inbalance_bug+0xc8/0x104)
[<c0069234>] (print_unlock_inbalance_bug+0x0/0x104) from [<c006b7ac>] (lock_release_non_nested+0xc4/0x19c)
 r6:00000028 r5:c3c1ab80 r4:c01b4564
[<c006b6e8>] (lock_release_non_nested+0x0/0x19c) from [<c006b9e0>] (lock_release+0x15c/0x18c)
 r8:60000013 r7:00000001 r6:c01b4564 r5:c0541bb4 r4:c3c1ab80
[<c006b884>] (lock_release+0x0/0x18c) from [<c0061ba0>] (up_write+0x24/0x30)
 r8:c0541b80 r7:00000000 r6:ffffffea r5:c3c34828 r4:c0541b8c
[<c0061b7c>] (up_write+0x0/0x30) from [<c01b4564>] (unlock_policy_rwsem_write+0x30/0x40)
 r4:c3c34884
[<c01b4534>] (unlock_policy_rwsem_write+0x0/0x40) from [<c01b4c40>] (cpufreq_add_dev+0x324/0x398)
[<c01b491c>] (cpufreq_add_dev+0x0/0x398) from [<c018fd64>] (sysdev_driver_register+0xc0/0x130)
[<c018fca4>] (sysdev_driver_register+0x0/0x130) from [<c01b3574>] (cpufreq_register_driver+0xbc/0x174)

Signed-off-by: Lothar Waßmann <LW@KARO-electronics.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-05-29 12:10:12 -04:00
Mike Travis 068b12772a cpufreq: use performance variant for_each_cpu_mask_nr
Change references from for_each_cpu_mask to for_each_cpu_mask_nr
where appropriate

Reviewed-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 18:35:12 +02:00
Mike Travis 7a6aedfac9 [CPUFREQ] change cpu freq arrays to per_cpu variables
Change cpufreq_policy and cpufreq_governor pointer tables
from arrays to per_cpu variables in the cpufreq subsystem.

Also some minor complaints from checkpatch.pl fixed.

Based on:
	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-05-19 18:17:49 -04:00
Darrick J. Wong e8628dd06d [CPUFREQ] expose cpufreq coordination requirements regardless of coordination mechanism
Currently, affected_cpus shows which CPUs need to have their frequency
coordinated in software.  When hardware coordination is in use, the contents
of this file appear the same as when no coordination is required.  This can
lead to some confusion among user-space programs, for example, that do not
know that extra coordination is required to force a CPU core to a particular
speed to control power consumption.

To fix this, create a "related_cpus" attribute that always displays the
coordination map regardless of whatever coordination strategy the cpufreq
driver uses (sw or hw).  If the cpufreq driver does not provide a value, fall
back to policy->cpus.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-04-28 16:27:08 -04:00
Cesar Eduardo Barros 74212ca432 [CPUFREQ] Warn when cpufreq_register_notifier called before pure initcalls
If cpufreq_register_notifier is called before pure initcalls,
init_cpufreq_transition_notifier_list will overwrite whatever it did,
causing notifiers to be ignored.

Print some noise to the kernel log if that happens.

Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.net>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
2008-04-28 15:05:44 -04:00
Dave Jones 4570911811 [CPUFREQ] Refactor locking in cpufreq_add_dev
Simplify this by moving the unlocking out of the error
paths into the exit path.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
2008-04-28 15:05:42 -04:00
Dave Jones 905d77cd95 [CPUFREQ] more CodingStyle
void * p   ->  void *p
no space between function parameters
removed excess whitespace

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
2008-04-28 15:05:42 -04:00
Dave Jones 4d34a67d02 [CPUFREQ] CodingStyle
return is not a function.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-04-28 15:05:41 -04:00
Dave Jones c906049447 [CPUFREQ] Slightly shorten the error paths of cpufreq_suspend/cpufreq_resume
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-04-28 15:05:41 -04:00
Sam Ravnborg f6ebef30e2 [CPUFREQ] fix section mismatch warnings
Fix the following warnings:
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xfe6711): Section mismatch in reference from the function cpufreq_unregister_driver() to the variable .cpuinit.data:cpufreq_cpu_notifier
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xfe68af): Section mismatch in reference from the function cpufreq_register_driver() to the variable .cpuinit.data:cpufreq_cpu_notifier
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.exit.text+0xc4fa): Section mismatch in reference from the function cpufreq_stats_exit() to the variable .cpuinit.data:cpufreq_stat_cpu_notifier

The warnings were casued by references to unregister_hotcpu_notifier()
from normal functions or exit functions.
This is flagged by modpost as a potential error because
it does not know that for the non HOTPLUG_CPU
scenario the unregister_hotcpu_notifier() is a nop.
Silence the warning by replacing the __initdata
annotation with a __refdata annotation.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
2008-03-05 14:45:31 -05:00
Dave Jones a07530b445 [CPUFREQ] Fix missing cpufreq_cpu_put() call in ->store
refactor to use gotos instead of explicit exit paths

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-03-05 14:45:31 -05:00
Dave Jones 0db4a8a99f [CPUFREQ] Fix missing cpufreq_cpu_put() call in ->show
refactor to use gotos instead of explicit exit paths

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-03-05 14:45:31 -05:00
Balaji Rao 7ab4705045 cpufreq: fix kobject reference count handling
The cpufreq core should not take an extra kobject reference count for no
reason, and then refuse to release it.  This has been reported as
keeping machines from properly powering down all the way.


Signed-off-by: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Yi Yang <yi.y.yang@intel.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-02-21 15:27:06 -08:00
Venki Pallipadi 9e76988e93 [CPUFREQ] Eliminate cpufreq_userspace scaling_setspeed deadlock
Eliminate cpufreq_userspace scaling_setspeed deadlock.

Luming Yu recently uncovered yet another cpufreq related deadlock.
One thread that continuously switches the governors and the other thread that
repeatedly cats the contents of cpufreq directory causes both these threads to
go into a deadlock.

Detailed examination of the deadlock showed the exact flow before the deadlock
as:

Thread 1			Thread 2
________			________
				cats files under /sys/devices/.../cpufreq/
Set governor to userspace
  Adds a new sysfs entry for
  scaling_setspeed
				cats files under /sys/devices/.../cpufreq/

Set governor to performance
  Holds cpufreq_rw_sem in write
  mode
  Sends a STOP notify to
  userspace governor
				cat /sys/devices/.../cpufreq/scaling_setspeed
				  Gets a handle on the above sysfs entry with
				  sysfs_get_active
				  Blocks while trying to get cpufreq_rw_sem
				  in read mode
  Remove a sysfs entry for
  scaling_setspeed
    Blocks on sysfs_deactivate
    while waiting for earlier
    get_active (on other thread)
    to drain

At this point both threads go into deadlock and any other thread that tries to
do anything with sysfs cpufreq will also block.

There seems to be no easy way to avoid this deadlock as long as
cpufreq_userspace adds/removes the sysfs entry under same kobject as cpufreq.
Below patch moves scaling_setspeed to cpufreq.c, keeping it always and calling
back the governor on read/write. This is the cleanest fix I could think of,
even though adding two callbacks in governor structure just for this seems
unnecessary.

Note that the change makes scaling_setspeed under /sys/.../cpufreq permanent
and returns <unsupported> when governor is not userspace.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-02-06 22:57:58 -05:00
Joe Perches a4a9df5825 [CPUFREQ] drivers/cpufreq: Add missing "space"
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-02-06 22:57:57 -05:00
Yi Yang 53391fa20c cpufreq: fix obvious condition statement error
The function __cpufreq_set_policy in file drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
has a very obvious error:

        if (policy->min > data->min && policy->min > policy->max) {
                ret = -EINVAL;
                goto error_out;
        }

This condtion statement is wrong because it returns -EINVAL only if
policy->min is greater than policy->max (in this case,
"policy->min > data->min" is true for ever.). In fact, it should
return -EINVAL as well if policy->max is less than data->min.

The correct condition should be:

	if (policy->min > data->max || policy->max < data->min) {

The following test result testifies the above conclusion:

Before applying this patch:

[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies
2394000 1596000
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 1596000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
1596000
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq
1596000
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo "2000000" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq
1596000
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo "0" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
1596000
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo "1595000" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
1596000
[root@yangyi-dev /]#

After applying this patch:

[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies
2394000 1596000
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 1596000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
1596000
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq
1596000
[root@localhost /]# echo "2000000" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
[root@localhost /]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq
1596000
[root@localhost /]# echo "0" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
[root@localhost /]# echo "1595000" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
[root@localhost /]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
1596000
[root@localhost /]# echo "1596000" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
[root@localhost /]# echo "2394000" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
[root@localhost /]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
2394000
[root@localhost /]

Signed-off-by: Yi Yang <yi.y.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:33:34 +01:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman c10997f657 Kobject: convert drivers/* from kobject_unregister() to kobject_put()
There is no need for kobject_unregister() anymore, thanks to Kay's
kobject cleanup changes, so replace all instances of it with
kobject_put().


Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:40 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 038c5b3e41 Kobject: change drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c to use kobject_init_and_add
Stop using kobject_register, as this way we can control the sending of
the uevent properly, after everything is properly initialized.

Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:28 -08:00
Dave Jones bd6cba53c5 cpufreq: fix missing unlocks in cpufreq_add_dev error paths.
Ingo hit some BUG_ONs that were probably caused by these missing unlocks
causing an unbalance.  He couldn't reproduce the bug reliably, so it's
unknown that it's definitly fixing the problem he hit, but it's a fairly
good chance, and this fixes an obvious bug.

[ Dave: "Ingo followed up that he hit some lockdep related output with
         this applied, so it may not be right.  I'll look at it after
         xmas if no-one has it figured out before then."
  Akpm: "It looks pretty correct to me though." ]

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-17 19:28:16 -08:00
Linus Torvalds efefc6eb38 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (75 commits)
  PM: merge device power-management source files
  sysfs: add copyrights
  kobject: update the copyrights
  kset: add some kerneldoc to help describe what these strange things are
  Driver core: rename ktype_edd and ktype_efivar
  Driver core: rename ktype_driver
  Driver core: rename ktype_device
  Driver core: rename ktype_class
  driver core: remove subsystem_init()
  sysfs: move sysfs file poll implementation to sysfs_open_dirent
  sysfs: implement sysfs_open_dirent
  sysfs: move sysfs_dirent->s_children into sysfs_dirent->s_dir
  sysfs: make sysfs_root a regular directory dirent
  sysfs: open code sysfs_attach_dentry()
  sysfs: make s_elem an anonymous union
  sysfs: make bin attr open get active reference of parent too
  sysfs: kill unnecessary NULL pointer check in sysfs_release()
  sysfs: kill unnecessary sysfs_get() in open paths
  sysfs: reposition sysfs_dirent->s_mode.
  sysfs: kill sysfs_update_file()
  ...
2007-10-12 15:49:37 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 19c38de88a kobjects: fix up improper use of the kobject name field
A number of different drivers incorrect access the kobject name field
directly.  This is not correct as the name might not be in the array.
Use the proper accessor function instead.
2007-10-12 14:51:02 -07:00
Andi Kleen 9eb59573d4 [CPUFREQ] Don't take semaphore in cpufreq_quick_get()
I don't see any reason to take an expensive lock in cpufreq_quick_get()
Reading policy->cur is a single atomic operation and after
the lock is dropped again the state could change any time anyways.

So don't take the lock in the first place.

This also makes this function interrupt safe which is useful
for some code of mine.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-10-09 21:44:06 -04:00
Satyam Sharma dd184a01b8 [CPUFREQ] mark hotplug notifier callback as __cpuinit
The notifier_block is already __cpuinitdata, thereby allowing us to safely
mark the callback function as __cpuinit also, thereby saving space when
HOTPLUG_CPU=n.

Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-10-04 18:40:57 -04:00
Thomas Renninger 6afde10c3f [CPUFREQ] Only check for transition latency on problematic governors (kconfig fix)
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-10-04 18:40:57 -04:00
Thomas Renninger 1c2562459f [CPUFREQ] allow ondemand and conservative cpufreq governors to be used as default
Depending on the transition latency of the HW for cpufreq switches, the
ondemand or conservative governor cannot be used with certain cpufreq
drivers.  Still the ondemand should be the default governor on a wide range
of systems.  This patch allows this and lets the governor fallback to the
performance governor at cpufreq driver load time, if the driver does not
support fast enough frequency switching.

Main benefit is that on e.g.  installation or other systems without
userspace support a working dynamic cpufreq support can be achieved on most
systems by simply loading the cpufreq driver.  This is especially essential
for recent x86(_64) laptop hardware which may rely on working dynamic
cpufreq OS support.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-10-04 18:40:57 -04:00
Thomas Renninger 8122c6cea0 [CPUFREQ] move policy's governor initialisation out of low-level drivers into cpufreq core
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-10-04 18:40:57 -04:00
Thomas Renninger 084f349394 [CPUFREQ] Restore previously used governor on a hot-replugged CPU
Negative side effect: needs NR_CPUs pointer array of memory in
CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU case.

Still needs userspace track keeping and rewriting of governors if governors
change while a CPU is not active (always the governor at CPU remove time is
restored).

Move of policy->user_policy.governor assignment is just a minor cleanup.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8671

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-07-13 01:29:51 -04:00
Peter Oruba 91973de736 [CPUFREQ] bugfix cpufreq in combination with performance governor
There is a frequency scaling issue that I encountered with the performance
governor in combination with CPU hotplug.

In cpufreq.c CPU frequency is reduced to its minimum before the CPU gets
unregistered and set offline.  Does that have a particular reason?

Since the (k8-)governor does not monitor CPU frequency that setting also
applies then to the remaining CPU as well and lets the system run on the
lowest frequency although performance is chose as the policy.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-07-13 01:29:51 -04:00
Tobias Klauser 58a7295bc8 [CPUFREQ] Fix sysfs_create_file return value handling
Commit 0a4b2ccc55 in cpufreq.git
eliminates the build warnings but does not pass on the error code of
sysfs_create_file to the function calling cpufreq_add_dev. Instead some
previous value of ret would be returned.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-06-21 12:57:54 -04:00
Thomas Renninger 0a4b2ccc55 [CPUFREQ] check return value of sysfs_create_file
Eliminate build warning (sysfs_create_file return value must be checked)

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-05-29 16:56:40 -04:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 8bb7844286 Add suspend-related notifications for CPU hotplug
Since nonboot CPUs are now disabled after tasks and devices have been
frozen and the CPU hotplug infrastructure is used for this purpose, we need
special CPU hotplug notifications that will help the CPU-hotplug-aware
subsystems distinguish normal CPU hotplug events from CPU hotplug events
related to a system-wide suspend or resume operation in progress.  This
patch introduces such notifications and causes them to be used during
suspend and resume transitions.  It also changes all of the
CPU-hotplug-aware subsystems to take these notifications into consideration
(for now they are handled in the same way as the corresponding "normal"
ones).

[oleg@tv-sign.ru: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:56 -07:00
Thomas Renninger 632786ce9f [CPUFREQ] Remove deprecated /proc/acpi/processor/performance write support
Remove deprecated /proc/acpi/processor/performance write support

Writing to /proc/acpi/processor/xy/performance interferes with sysfs
cpufreq interface. Also removes buggy cpufreq_set_policy exported symbol.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-04-26 14:32:02 -04:00
Thomas Renninger 22c970f346 [CPUFREQ] Fix limited cpufreq when booted on battery
References:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=231107
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=264077

Fix limited cpufreq when booted on battery

If booted on battery:
cpufreq_set_policy (evil) is invoked which calls verify_within_limits.
max_freq gets lowered and therefore users_policy.max, which
is used to restore higher freqs via update_policy later is set to the
already limited frequency -> you can never go up again, even BIOS
allows higher freqs later.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-04-26 14:32:02 -04:00
Venki Pallipadi ec28297a56 [PATCH] Fix maxcpus=1 trigerring BUG() in cpufreq
Ingo reported it on lkml in the thread
  "2.6.21-rc5: maxcpus=1 crash in cpufreq: kernel BUG at drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c:82!"

This check added to remove_dev  is symmetric to one in add_dev and handles
callbacks for offline cpus cleanly.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-27 08:55:56 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 221dee285e Revert "[CPUFREQ] constify cpufreq_driver where possible."
This reverts commit aeeddc1435, which was
half-baked and broken.  It just resulted in compile errors, since
cpufreq_register_driver() still changes the 'driver_data' by setting
bits in the flags field.  So claiming it is 'const' _really_ doesn't
work.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-26 14:55:48 -08:00
Dave Jones aeeddc1435 [CPUFREQ] constify cpufreq_driver where possible.
Not all cases are possible due to ->flags being set at runtime
on some drivers.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-02-22 19:08:27 -05:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi 5a01f2e8f3 [CPUFREQ] Rewrite lock in cpufreq to eliminate cpufreq/hotplug related issues
Yet another attempt to resolve cpufreq and hotplug locking issues.

Patchset has 3 patches:
* Rewrite the lock infrastructure of cpufreq using a per cpu rwsem.
* Minor restructuring of work callback in ondemand driver.
* Use the new cpufreq rwsem infrastructure in ondemand work.

This patch:

Convert policy->lock to rwsem and move it to per_cpu area.
This rwsem will protect against both changing/accessing policy
related parameters and CPU hot plug/unplug.

[malattia@linux.it: fix oops in kref_put()]
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-02-10 20:01:47 -05:00
Dave Jones c120069779 [CPUFREQ] Remove hotplug cpu crap
The hotplug CPU locking in cpufreq is horrendous.  No-one seems to care
enough to fix it, so just remove it so that the 99.9% of the real world
users of this code can use cpufreq without being bothered by warnings.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-02-10 20:01:47 -05:00
Ahmed S. Darwish 0142f9dce8 [CPUFREQ] check sysfs_create_link return value
Trivial patch to check sysfs_create_link return values.
Fail gracefully if needed.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-01-29 00:06:27 -05:00
Dhaval Giani 4ab70df451 [CPUFREQ] fixes typo in cpufreq.c
This patch fixes a typo in cpufreq.c

From: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-12-13 10:11:25 -05:00
Dave Jones c4366889dd Merge ../linus
Conflicts:

	drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
2006-12-12 17:41:41 -05:00
Ingo Molnar 0231606785 [PATCH] hotplug CPU: clean up hotcpu_notifier() use
There was lots of #ifdef noise in the kernel due to hotcpu_notifier(fn,
prio) not correctly marking 'fn' as used in the !HOTPLUG_CPU case, and thus
generating compiler warnings of unused symbols, hence forcing people to add
#ifdefs.

the compiler can skip truly unused functions just fine:

    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 1624412  728710 3674856 6027978  5bfaca vmlinux.before
 1624412  728710 3674856 6027978  5bfaca vmlinux.after

[akpm@osdl.org: topology.c fix]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:39 -08:00
David Howells 65f27f3844 WorkStruct: Pass the work_struct pointer instead of context data
Pass the work_struct pointer to the work function rather than context data.
The work function can use container_of() to work out the data.

For the cases where the container of the work_struct may go away the moment the
pending bit is cleared, it is made possible to defer the release of the
structure by deferring the clearing of the pending bit.

To make this work, an extra flag is introduced into the management side of the
work_struct.  This governs auto-release of the structure upon execution.

Ordinarily, the work queue executor would release the work_struct for further
scheduling or deallocation by clearing the pending bit prior to jumping to the
work function.  This means that, unless the driver makes some guarantee itself
that the work_struct won't go away, the work function may not access anything
else in the work_struct or its container lest they be deallocated..  This is a
problem if the auxiliary data is taken away (as done by the last patch).

However, if the pending bit is *not* cleared before jumping to the work
function, then the work function *may* access the work_struct and its container
with no problems.  But then the work function must itself release the
work_struct by calling work_release().

In most cases, automatic release is fine, so this is the default.  Special
initiators exist for the non-auto-release case (ending in _NAR).


Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-11-22 14:55:48 +00:00
Linus Torvalds b3438f8266 Add "pure_initcall" for static variable initialization
This is a quick hack to overcome the fact that SRCU currently does not
allow static initializers, and we need to sometimes initialize those
things before any other initializers (even "core" ones) can do so.

Currently we don't allow this at all for modules, and the only user that
needs is right now is cpufreq. As reported by Thomas Gleixner:

   "Commit b4dfdbb3c7 ("[PATCH] cpufreq:
    make the transition_notifier chain use SRCU breaks cpu frequency
    notification users, which register the callback > on core_init
    level."

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@timesys.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-20 11:47:18 -08:00
Gautham R Shenoy e08f5f5bb5 [CPUFREQ] Fix coding style issues in cpufreq.
Clean up cpufreq subsystem to fix coding style issues and to improve
the readability.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-11-06 19:16:34 -05:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi dfde5d62ed [CPUFREQ][8/8] acpi-cpufreq: Add support for freq feedback from hardware
Enable ondemand governor and acpi-cpufreq to use IA32_APERF and IA32_MPERF MSR
to get active frequency feedback for the last sampling interval. This will
make ondemand take right frequency decisions when hardware coordination of
frequency is going on.

Without APERF/MPERF, ondemand can take wrong decision at times due
to underlying hardware coordination or TM2.
Example:
* CPU 0 and CPU 1 are hardware cooridnated.
* CPU 1 running at highest frequency.
* CPU 0 was running at highest freq. Now ondemand reduces it to
  some intermediate frequency based on utilization.
* Due to underlying hardware coordination with other CPU 1, CPU 0 continues to
  run at highest frequency (as long as other CPU is at highest).
* When ondemand samples CPU 0 again next time, without actual frequency
  feedback from APERF/MPERF, it will think that previous frequency change
  was successful and can go to wrong target frequency. This is because it
  thinks that utilization it has got this sampling interval is when running at
  intermediate frequency, rather than actual highest frequency.

More information about IA32_APERF IA32_MPERF MSR:
Refer to IA-32 Intel® Architecture Software Developer's Manual at
http://developer.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-10-15 19:57:11 -04:00
Alan Stern b4dfdbb3c7 [PATCH] cpufreq: make the transition_notifier chain use SRCU
This patch (as762) changes the cpufreq_transition_notifier_list from a
blocking_notifier_head to an srcu_notifier_head.  This will prevent errors
caused attempting to call down_read() to access the notifier chain at a
time when interrupts must remain disabled, during system suspend.

It's not clear to me whether this is really necessary; perhaps the chain
could be made into an atomic_notifier.  However a couple of the callout
routines do use blocking operations, so this approach seems safer.

The head of the notifier chain needs to be initialized before use; this is
done by an __init routine at core_initcall time.  If this turns out not to
be a good choice, it can easily be changed.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-04 07:55:30 -07:00
Dave Jones 0e37b159aa [CPUFREQ] Fix cut-n-paste bug in suspend printk
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-09-26 23:02:34 -04:00
Dave Jones cd87847979 [CPUFREQ] Fix typo.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-08-11 17:59:28 -04:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge ea71497020 [CPUFREQ] [2/2] demand load governor modules.
Demand-load cpufreq governor modules if needed.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-07-31 18:37:06 -04:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 3bcb09a356 [CPUFREQ] [1/2] add __find_governor helper and clean up some error handling.
Adds a __find_governor() helper function to look up a governor by
name.  Also restructures some error handling to conform to the
"single-exit" model which is generally preferred for kernel code.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-07-31 18:37:06 -04:00
Mattia Dongili 9c9a43ed27 [CPUFREQ] return error when failing to set minfreq
I just stumbled on this bug/feature, this is how to reproduce it:

# echo 450000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq
# echo 450000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
# echo powersave > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
# cpufreq-info -p
450000 450000 powersave
# echo 1800000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq ; echo $?
0
# cpufreq-info -p
450000 450000 powersave

Here it is. The kernel refuses to set a min_freq higher than the
max_freq but it allows a max_freq lower than min_freq (lowering min_freq
also).

This behaviour is pretty straightforward (but undocumented) and it
doesn't return an error altough failing to accomplish the requested
action (set min_freq).
The problem (IMO) is basically that userspace is not allowed to set a
full policy atomically while the kernel always does that thus it must
enforce an ordering on operations.

The attached patch returns -EINVAL if trying to increase frequencies
starting from scaling_min_freq and documents the correct ordering of writes.

Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux at dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

--
2006-07-31 18:37:05 -04:00
Arjan van de Ven 153d7f3fca [PATCH] Reorganize the cpufreq cpu hotplug locking to not be totally bizare
The patch below moves the cpu hotplugging higher up in the cpufreq
layering; this is needed to avoid recursive taking of the cpu hotplug
lock and to otherwise detangle the mess.

The new rules are:
1. you must do lock_cpu_hotplug() around the following functions:
   __cpufreq_driver_target
   __cpufreq_governor (for CPUFREQ_GOV_LIMITS operation only)
   __cpufreq_set_policy
2. governer methods (.governer) must NOT take the lock_cpu_hotplug()
   lock in any way; they are called with the lock taken already
3. if your governer spawns a thread that does things, like calling
   __cpufreq_driver_target, your thread must honor rule #1.
4. the policy lock and other cpufreq internal locks nest within
   the lock_cpu_hotplug() lock.

I'm not entirely happy about how the __cpufreq_governor rule ended up
(conditional locking rule depending on the argument) but basically all
callers pass this as a constant so it's not too horrible.

The patch also removes the cpufreq_governor() function since during the
locking audit it turned out to be entirely unused (so no need to fix it)

The patch works on my testbox, but it could use more testing
(otoh... it can't be much worse than the current code)

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-26 07:21:40 -07:00
Dave Jones a496e25dfb [PATCH] Fix cpufreq vs hotplug lockdep recursion.
[ There's some not quite baked bits in cpufreq-git right now
  so sending this on as a patch instead ]

On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 07:58 -0700, Tom London wrote:

> After installing .2356 I get this each time I boot:
> =======================================================
> [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
> -------------------------------------------------------
> S06cpuspeed/1620 is trying to acquire lock:
>  (dbs_mutex){--..}, at: [<c060d6bb>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24
>
> but task is already holding lock:
>  (cpucontrol){--..}, at: [<c060d6bb>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24
>
> which lock already depends on the new lock.
>

make sure the cpu hotplug recursive mutex (yuck) is taken early in the
cpufreq codepaths to avoid a AB-BA deadlock.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-07 09:46:45 -07:00
Jörn Engel 6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Chandra Seetharaman 74b85f3790 [PATCH] cpu hotplug: make cpu_notifier related notifier blocks __cpuinit only
Make notifier_blocks associated with cpu_notifier as __cpuinitdata.

__cpuinitdata makes sure that the data is init time only unless
CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined.

Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27 17:32:41 -07:00
Chandra Seetharaman 65edc68c34 [PATCH] cpu hotplug: make [un]register_cpu_notifier init time only
CPUs come online only at init time (unless CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined).
So, cpu_notifier functionality need to be available only at init time.

This patch makes register_cpu_notifier() available only at init time, unless
CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined.

This patch exports register_cpu_notifier() and unregister_cpu_notifier() only
if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined.

Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27 17:32:41 -07:00
Chandra Seetharaman 9c7b216d23 [PATCH] cpu hotplug: revert init patch submitted for 2.6.17
In 2.6.17, there was a problem with cpu_notifiers and XFS.  I provided a
band-aid solution to solve that problem.  In the process, i undid all the
changes you both were making to ensure that these notifiers were available
only at init time (unless CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined).

We deferred the real fix to 2.6.18.  Here is a set of patches that fixes the
XFS problem cleanly and makes the cpu notifiers available only at init time
(unless CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined).

If CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined then cpu notifiers are available at run
time.

This patch reverts the notifier_call changes made in 2.6.17

Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27 17:32:40 -07:00
Jan Beulich b10eec2246 [CPUFREQ] cpufreq core {d,}printk adjustments
Remove KERN_* suffixes from some cpufreq driver's dprintk-s.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-06-04 19:47:38 -04:00
Chandra Seetharaman 83d722f7e1 [PATCH] Remove __devinit and __cpuinit from notifier_call definitions
Few of the notifier_chain_register() callers use __init in the definition
of notifier_call.  It is incorrect as the function definition should be
available after the initializations (they do not unregister them during
initializations).

This patch fixes all such usages to _not_ have the notifier_call __init
section.

Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-26 08:30:03 -07:00
Adrian Bunk 7b14dedd1f [CPUFREQ] drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c: static functions mustn't be exported
This patch removes the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL of the static function cpufreq_parse_governor().

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-04-18 17:24:52 -05:00
Thomas Renninger 7970e08bf0 [CPUFREQ] If max_freq got reduced (e.g. by _PPC) a write to sysfs scaling_governor let cpufreq core stuck at low max_freq for ever
The previous patch had bugs (locking and refcount).

This one could also be related to the latest DELL reports.
But they only slip into this if a user prog (e.g. powersave daemon does when
AC got (un) plugged due to a scheme change) echos something to
/sys/../cpufreq/scaling_governor
while the frequencies got limited by BIOS.

This one works:

Subject: Max freq stucks at low freq if reduced by _PPC and sysfs gov access

The problem is reproducable by(if machine is limiting freqs via BIOS):
 - Unplugging AC -> max freq gets limited
 - echo ${governor} >/sys/.../cpufreq/scaling_governor (policy->user_data.max
   gets overridden with policy->max and will never come up again.)

This patch exchanged the cpufreq_set_policy call to __cpufreq_set_policy and
duplicated it's functionality but did not override user_data.max.
The same happens with overridding min/max values. If freqs are limited and
you override the min freq value, the max freq global value will also get
stuck to the limited freq, even if BIOS allows all freqs again.
Last scenario does only happen if BIOS does not reduce the frequency
to the lowest value (should never happen, just for correctness...)

 drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c |   17 +++++++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-04-18 17:24:52 -05:00
Dave Jones 87c3227138 [CPUFREQ] trailing whitespace removal de-jour.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-03-29 01:48:37 -05:00
Dave Jones 1f8b2c9d38 [CPUFREQ] extra debugging in cpufreq_add_dev()
Snipped from an otherwise rejected patch by Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-03-29 01:40:04 -05:00
Alan Stern e041c68341 [PATCH] Notifier chain update: API changes
The kernel's implementation of notifier chains is unsafe.  There is no
protection against entries being added to or removed from a chain while the
chain is in use.  The issues were discussed in this thread:

    http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113018709002036&w=2

We noticed that notifier chains in the kernel fall into two basic usage
classes:

	"Blocking" chains are always called from a process context
	and the callout routines are allowed to sleep;

	"Atomic" chains can be called from an atomic context and
	the callout routines are not allowed to sleep.

We decided to codify this distinction and make it part of the API.  Therefore
this set of patches introduces three new, parallel APIs: one for blocking
notifiers, one for atomic notifiers, and one for "raw" notifiers (which is
really just the old API under a new name).  New kinds of data structures are
used for the heads of the chains, and new routines are defined for
registration, unregistration, and calling a chain.  The three APIs are
explained in include/linux/notifier.h and their implementation is in
kernel/sys.c.

With atomic and blocking chains, the implementation guarantees that the chain
links will not be corrupted and that chain callers will not get messed up by
entries being added or removed.  For raw chains the implementation provides no
guarantees at all; users of this API must provide their own protections.  (The
idea was that situations may come up where the assumptions of the atomic and
blocking APIs are not appropriate, so it should be possible for users to
handle these things in their own way.)

There are some limitations, which should not be too hard to live with.  For
atomic/blocking chains, registration and unregistration must always be done in
a process context since the chain is protected by a mutex/rwsem.  Also, a
callout routine for a non-raw chain must not try to register or unregister
entries on its own chain.  (This did happen in a couple of places and the code
had to be changed to avoid it.)

Since atomic chains may be called from within an NMI handler, they cannot use
spinlocks for synchronization.  Instead we use RCU.  The overhead falls almost
entirely in the unregister routine, which is okay since unregistration is much
less frequent that calling a chain.

Here is the list of chains that we adjusted and their classifications.  None
of them use the raw API, so for the moment it is only a placeholder.

  ATOMIC CHAINS
  -------------
arch/i386/kernel/traps.c:		i386die_chain
arch/ia64/kernel/traps.c:		ia64die_chain
arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c:		powerpc_die_chain
arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c:		sparc64die_chain
arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c:		die_chain
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c:	xaction_notifier_list
kernel/panic.c:				panic_notifier_list
kernel/profile.c:			task_free_notifier
net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:		hci_notifier
net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c:	ip_conntrack_chain
net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c:	ip_conntrack_expect_chain
net/ipv6/addrconf.c:			inet6addr_chain
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:	nf_conntrack_chain
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:	nf_conntrack_expect_chain
net/netlink/af_netlink.c:		netlink_chain

  BLOCKING CHAINS
  ---------------
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c:	pSeries_reconfig_chain
arch/s390/kernel/process.c:		idle_chain
arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c		idle_notifier
drivers/base/memory.c:			memory_chain
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c		cpufreq_policy_notifier_list
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c		cpufreq_transition_notifier_list
drivers/macintosh/adb.c:		adb_client_list
drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c		sleep_notifier_list
drivers/macintosh/via-pmu68k.c		sleep_notifier_list
drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c	wf_client_list
drivers/usb/core/notify.c		usb_notifier_list
drivers/video/fbmem.c			fb_notifier_list
kernel/cpu.c				cpu_chain
kernel/module.c				module_notify_list
kernel/profile.c			munmap_notifier
kernel/profile.c			task_exit_notifier
kernel/sys.c				reboot_notifier_list
net/core/dev.c				netdev_chain
net/decnet/dn_dev.c:			dnaddr_chain
net/ipv4/devinet.c:			inetaddr_chain

It's possible that some of these classifications are wrong.  If they are,
please let us know or submit a patch to fix them.  Note that any chain that
gets called very frequently should be atomic, because the rwsem read-locking
used for blocking chains is very likely to incur cache misses on SMP systems.
(However, if the chain's callout routines may sleep then the chain cannot be
atomic.)

The patch set was written by Alan Stern and Chandra Seetharaman, incorporating
material written by Keith Owens and suggestions from Paul McKenney and Andrew
Morton.

[jes@sgi.com: restructure the notifier chain initialization macros]
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27 08:44:50 -08:00
Dave Jones 8ff69732d4 [CPUFREQ] Fix handling for CPU hotplug
This patch adds proper logic to cpufreq driver in order to handle
CPU Hotplug.

When CPUs go on/offline, the affected CPUs data, cpufreq_policy->cpus,
is not updated properly. This causes sysfs directories and symlinks to
be in an incorrect state after few CPU on/offlines.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-03-05 03:37:23 -05:00
Dave Jones 32ee8c3e47 [CPUFREQ] Lots of whitespace & CodingStyle cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-02-28 00:43:23 -05:00
Dave Jones 7d5e350fab [CPUFREQ] Whitespace/CodingStyle cleanups
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-02-02 17:03:42 -05:00
Thomas Renninger a85f7bd310 [CPUFREQ] Check whether driver init did not initialize current freq
Check whether driver init did not initialize current freq

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-02-02 16:56:41 -05:00
Dave Jones e4472cb370 [CPUFREQ] cpufreq_notify_transition cleanup.
Introduce caching of cpufreq_cpu_data[freqs->cpu], which allows us to
make the function a lot more readable, and as a nice side-effect, it
now fits in < 80 column displays again.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-01-31 15:53:55 -08:00