Re: [PATCH V3 2/4] cpufreq: governor: Implement per policy instances of governors

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On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:44:40AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 10:59:13 AM Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > On 4 March 2013 13:07, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Currently, there can't be multiple instances of single governor_type. If we have
> > > a multi-package system, where we have multiple instances of struct policy (per
> > > package), we can't have multiple instances of same governor. i.e. We can't have
> > > multiple instances of ondemand governor for multiple packages.
> > >
> > > Governors directory in sysfs is created at /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/
> > > governor-name/. Which again reflects that there can be only one instance of a
> > > governor_type in the system.
> > >
> > > This is a bottleneck for multicluster system, where we want different packages
> > > to use same governor type, but with different tunables.
> > >
> > > This patch uses the infrastructure provided by earlier patch and implements
> > > init/exit routines for ondemand and conservative governors.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > As discussed in other patch thread, i dropped "cpufreq: Add Kconfig option
> > to enable/disable have_multiple_policies" patch and following is the fixup
> > to this patch:
> > 
> > I have queued all patches i had for 3.10 here:
> > 
> > http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=people/vireshk/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/for-3.10
> 
> OK, applied these to linux-pm.git/bleeding-edge.

Hi, latest bleeding-edge is spewing this out on boot:

[    3.585157] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    3.592227] WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:536 sysfs_add_one+0xc8/0x100()
[    3.599521] Hardware name: Dinar
[    3.606878] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ondemand'
[    3.614634] Modules linked in:
[    3.622382] Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc4+ #7
[    3.630305] Call Trace:
[    3.638251]  [<ffffffff810589cf>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
[    3.646435]  [<ffffffff81058ac6>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50
[    3.654586]  [<ffffffff8133e2f0>] ? strlcat+0x60/0x80
[    3.662765]  [<ffffffff811fe7d8>] sysfs_add_one+0xc8/0x100
[    3.670977]  [<ffffffff811fe9cc>] create_dir+0x7c/0xd0
[    3.679239]  [<ffffffff811fecaf>] sysfs_create_subdir+0x1f/0x30
[    3.687601]  [<ffffffff812006c4>] internal_create_group+0x64/0x210
[    3.696098]  [<ffffffff812008a3>] sysfs_create_group+0x13/0x20
[    3.704700]  [<ffffffff816bf800>] cpufreq_governor_dbs+0x400/0x590
[    3.713401]  [<ffffffff816bdc37>] od_cpufreq_governor_dbs+0x17/0x20
[    3.722191]  [<ffffffff816bb437>] __cpufreq_governor+0x47/0xc0
[    3.731071]  [<ffffffff816bb94d>] __cpufreq_set_policy+0x19d/0x1b0
[    3.739968]  [<ffffffff816bca89>] cpufreq_add_dev_interface+0x259/0x2b0
[    3.748960]  [<ffffffff813cdce6>] ? acpi_processor_get_performance_info+0x21c/0x452
[    3.758099]  [<ffffffff816bc210>] ? cpufreq_update_policy+0x130/0x130
[    3.767366]  [<ffffffff816bce90>] cpufreq_add_dev+0x3b0/0x4d0
[    3.776659]  [<ffffffff821579d4>] ? cpufreq_gov_dbs_init+0x12/0x12
[    3.785985]  [<ffffffff814e6a39>] subsys_interface_register+0x89/0xd0
[    3.795452]  [<ffffffff816baf5e>] cpufreq_register_driver+0x8e/0x180
[    3.804919]  [<ffffffff82157aca>] acpi_cpufreq_init+0xf6/0x1f8
[    3.814360]  [<ffffffff814f5030>] ? set_trace_device+0x80/0x80
[    3.823558]  [<ffffffff8100206f>] do_one_initcall+0x3f/0x170
[    3.832476]  [<ffffffff8211b00a>] kernel_init_freeable+0x13e/0x1cd
[    3.841131]  [<ffffffff8211a88e>] ? do_early_param+0x86/0x86
[    3.849506]  [<ffffffff817f4c20>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
[    3.857557]  [<ffffffff817f4c2e>] kernel_init+0xe/0xf0
[    3.865260]  [<ffffffff8181edec>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[    3.872886]  [<ffffffff817f4c20>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
[    3.880456] ---[ end trace 1a5c6247c6d9b0ac ]---
[    3.888201] ------------[ cut here ]------------

This warning is repeated for number of cpus - 1 times.

And when I do:

$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ondemand/up_threshold

[  489.103388] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010
[  489.112064] IP: [<ffffffff816be02c>] show_up_threshold+0x1c/0x30
[  489.120511] PGD a285e6067 PUD a27085067 PMD 0 
[  489.128690] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP 
[  489.136521] Modules linked in:
[  489.144134] CPU 15 
[  489.144229] Pid: 1565, comm: cat Tainted: G        W    3.9.0-rc4+ #7 AMD Dinar/Dinar
[  489.159654] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff816be02c>]  [<ffffffff816be02c>] show_up_threshold+0x1c/0x30
[  489.167864] RSP: 0018:ffff880423859e88  EFLAGS: 00010246
[  489.176043] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff880a271188c0 RCX: ffffffff81a41810
[  489.184372] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff81e02dae RDI: ffffffff820d7860
[  489.184373] RBP: ffff880423859e88 R08: ffffea0028b6df80 R09: 00000000001f05b8
[  489.184374] R10: 0000000000001b97 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: ffff880423859f50
[  489.184374] R13: 0000000000008000 R14: ffff880a271188a0 R15: ffff8804251aa070
[  489.184377] FS:  00007f3278b31700(0000) GS:ffff880a2fcc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  489.184378] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  489.184378] CR2: 0000000000000010 CR3: 0000000a2db82000 CR4: 00000000000407e0
[  489.184380] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[  489.184381] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[  489.184382] Process cat (pid: 1565, threadinfo ffff880423858000, task ffff880424805c00)
[  489.184382] Stack:
[  489.184389]  ffff880423859e98 ffffffff8133814f ffff880423859ef8 ffffffff811fd62a
[  489.184394]  000000002bf67be2 ffff8808260b7a80 ffffffff81a41810 00000000012c8000
[  489.184399]  ffff880423859ef8 0000000000008000 00000000012c8000 ffff880423859f50
[  489.184400] Call Trace:
[  489.184406]  [<ffffffff8133814f>] kobj_attr_show+0xf/0x30
[  489.184411]  [<ffffffff811fd62a>] sysfs_read_file+0xaa/0x190
[  489.184415]  [<ffffffff81187e30>] vfs_read+0xb0/0x180
[  489.184418]  [<ffffffff81187f52>] sys_read+0x52/0xa0
[  489.184422]  [<ffffffff8181a7fe>] ? do_page_fault+0xe/0x10
[  489.184426]  [<ffffffff8181ee99>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[  489.184441] Code: 52 08 e8 78 2c c8 ff 5d 48 98 c3 0f 1f 40 00 66 66 66 66 90 55 48 8b 57 70 48 89 f0 48 89 c7 48 c7 c6 ae 2d e0 81 31 c0 48 89 e5 <48> 8b 52 10 8b 52 0c e8 48 2c c8 ff 5d 48 98 c3 0f 1f 40 00 66 
[  489.184443] RIP  [<ffffffff816be02c>] show_up_threshold+0x1c/0x30
[  489.184443]  RSP <ffff880423859e88>
[  489.184444] CR2: 0000000000000010
[  489.184507] ---[ end trace 1a5c6247c6d9b0c3 ]---

Any ideas?

Thanks,

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