Hi,
Thanks for the patch! I'll queue it up for v3.7 when I get back home from
the current trip (around the -rc3 time frame I suppose).
In future please don't send patches directly to stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
That doesn't make -stable pick them up anyway and confuses things.
Thanks,
Rafael
On Friday 12 of October 2012 17:18:41 Andreas Herrmann wrote:
>
> Commit 6889125b8b4e09c5e53e6ecab3433bed1ce198c9
> (cpufreq/powernow-k8: workqueue user shouldn't migrate the kworker to another CPU)
> causes powernow-k8 to trigger a preempt warning, e.g.:
>
> BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: cpufreq/3776
> caller is powernowk8_target+0x20/0x49
> Pid: 3776, comm: cpufreq Not tainted 3.6.0 #9
> Call Trace:
> [<ffffffff8125b447>] debug_smp_processor_id+0xc7/0xe0
> [<ffffffff814877e7>] powernowk8_target+0x20/0x49
> [<ffffffff81482b02>] __cpufreq_driver_target+0x82/0x8a
> [<ffffffff81484fc6>] cpufreq_governor_performance+0x4e/0x54
> [<ffffffff81482c50>] __cpufreq_governor+0x8c/0xc9
> [<ffffffff81482e6f>] __cpufreq_set_policy+0x1a9/0x21e
> [<ffffffff814839af>] store_scaling_governor+0x16f/0x19b
> [<ffffffff81484f16>] ? cpufreq_update_policy+0x124/0x124
> [<ffffffff8162b4a5>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x2c/0x49
> [<ffffffff81483640>] store+0x60/0x88
> [<ffffffff811708c0>] sysfs_write_file+0xf4/0x130
> [<ffffffff8111243b>] vfs_write+0xb5/0x151
> [<ffffffff811126e0>] sys_write+0x4a/0x71
> [<ffffffff816319a9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
>
> Fix this by by always using work_on_cpu().
>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c | 9 +--------
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c b/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
> index 129e80b..c16a3a5 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
> @@ -1052,14 +1052,7 @@ static int powernowk8_target(struct cpufreq_policy *pol,
> struct powernowk8_target_arg pta = { .pol = pol, .targfreq = targfreq,
> .relation = relation };
>
> - /*
> - * Must run on @pol->cpu. cpufreq core is responsible for ensuring
> - * that we're bound to the current CPU and pol->cpu stays online.
> - */
> - if (smp_processor_id() == pol->cpu)
> - return powernowk8_target_fn(&pta);
> - else
> - return work_on_cpu(pol->cpu, powernowk8_target_fn, &pta);
> + return work_on_cpu(pol->cpu, powernowk8_target_fn, &pta);
> }
>
> /* Driver entry point to verify the policy and range of frequencies */
>
--
I speak only for myself.
Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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