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| author | Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> | 2016-02-09 09:01:35 +0530 |
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| committer | Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> | 2016-03-09 14:40:59 +0100 |
| commit | 68e80dae09033d778b98dc88e5bfe8fdade188e5 (patch) | |
| tree | 0571ae04e4cf5be1135caae77d877aec08f08236 /drivers/cpufreq | |
| parent | fd8ddc482a7a5e015c0613c4d96543d5efad047c (diff) | |
Revert "cpufreq: Drop rwsem lock around CPUFREQ_GOV_POLICY_EXIT"
Earlier, when the struct freq-attr was used to represent governor
attributes, the standard cpufreq show/store sysfs attribute callbacks
were applied to the governor tunable attributes and they always acquire
the policy->rwsem lock before carrying out the operation. That could
have resulted in an ABBA deadlock if governor tunable attributes are
removed under policy->rwsem while one of them is being accessed
concurrently (if sysfs attributes removal wins the race, it will wait
for the access to complete with policy->rwsem held while the attribute
callback will block on policy->rwsem indefinitely).
We attempted to address this issue by dropping policy->rwsem around
governor tunable attributes removal (that is, around invocations of the
->governor callback with the event arg equal to CPUFREQ_GOV_POLICY_EXIT)
in cpufreq_set_policy(), but that opened up race conditions that had not
been possible with policy->rwsem held all the time.
The previous commit, "cpufreq: governor: New sysfs show/store callbacks
for governor tunables", fixed the original ABBA deadlock by adding new
governor specific show/store callbacks.
We don't have to drop rwsem around invocations of governor event
CPUFREQ_GOV_POLICY_EXIT anymore, and original fix can be reverted now.
Fixes: 955ef4833574 (cpufreq: Drop rwsem lock around CPUFREQ_GOV_POLICY_EXIT)
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Reported-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Tested-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Tested-by: Shilpasri G Bhat <shilpa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/cpufreq')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c index e172b2a02c1d..e92e9eab7c6c 100644 --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c @@ -2205,10 +2205,7 @@ static int cpufreq_set_policy(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, return ret; } - up_write(&policy->rwsem); ret = __cpufreq_governor(policy, CPUFREQ_GOV_POLICY_EXIT); - down_write(&policy->rwsem); - if (ret) { pr_err("%s: Failed to Exit Governor: %s (%d)\n", __func__, old_gov->name, ret); @@ -2224,9 +2221,7 @@ static int cpufreq_set_policy(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, if (!ret) goto out; - up_write(&policy->rwsem); __cpufreq_governor(policy, CPUFREQ_GOV_POLICY_EXIT); - down_write(&policy->rwsem); } /* new governor failed, so re-start old one */ |