On 09-07-15, 02:33, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > We also missed marking policy->governor as NULL while restoring the > > policy. Because of that, we call __cpufreq_governor(CPUFREQ_GOV_LIMITS) > > How exactly does that happen?
Should have mentioned that in detail, sorry for being lazy. Hopefully this will look better: ---------------------------8<--------------------------- Message-Id: <5f17361741c009a7f0d8488f7f94bab80d9317fd.1436418101.git.viresh.ku...@linaro.org> From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.ku...@linaro.org> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 10:45:53 +0530 Subject: [PATCH V2] cpufreq: Initialize the governor again while restoring policy When all CPUs of a policy are hot-unplugged, we EXIT the governor but don't mark policy->governor as NULL. This was done in order to keep last used governor's information intact in sysfs, while the CPUs are offline. But we also marking policy->governor as NULL while restoring the policy. Because policy->governor still points to the last governor while policy is restored, following sequence of event happens: - cpufreq_init_policy() called while restoring policy - find_governor() matches last_governor string for present governors and returns last used governor's pointer, say ondemand. policy->governor already has the same address, unless the governor was removed in between. - cpufreq_set_policy() is called with both old/new policies governor set as ondemand. - Because governors matched, we skip governor initialization and return after calling __cpufreq_governor(CPUFREQ_GOV_LIMITS). Because the governor wasn't initialized for this policy, it returned -EBUSY. - cpufreq_init_policy() exits the policy on this error, but doesn't destroy it properly (should be fixed separately). - And so we enter a scenario where the policy isn't completely initialized but used. Fix this by setting policy->governor to NULL while restoring the policy. Reported-and-tested-by: Pi-Cheng Chen <pi-cheng.c...@linaro.org> Reported-and-tested-by: "Jon Medhurst (Tixy)" <t...@linaro.org> Tested-by: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org> Fixes: 18bf3a124ef8 ("cpufreq: Mark policy->governor = NULL for inactive policies") Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.ku...@linaro.org> --- V2: Detailed changelog drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c index b612411655f9..2c22e3902e72 100644 --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c @@ -1132,6 +1132,7 @@ static struct cpufreq_policy *cpufreq_policy_restore(unsigned int cpu) down_write(&policy->rwsem); policy->cpu = cpu; + policy->governor = NULL; up_write(&policy->rwsem); } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/