Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> and Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> reported the warning: [ 51.616759] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 51.621460] WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/smp.c:123 native_smp_send_reschedule+0x58/0x60() [ 51.629638] Modules linked in: ext2 vfat fat loop snd_hda_codec_hdmi usbhid snd_hda_codec_realtek coretemp kvm_intel kvm snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel snd_hwdep snd_pcm aesni_intel sb_edac aes_x86_64 ehci_pci snd_page_alloc glue_helper snd_timer xhci_hcd snd iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support ehci_hcd edac_core lpc_ich acpi_cpufreq lrw gf128mul ablk_helper cryptd mperf usbcore usb_common soundcore mfd_core dcdbas evdev pcspkr processor i2c_i801 button microcode [ 51.675581] CPU: 0 PID: 244 Comm: kworker/1:1 Tainted: G W 3.10.0-rc1+ #10 [ 51.683407] Hardware name: Dell Inc. Precision T3600/0PTTT9, BIOS A08 01/24/2013 [ 51.690901] Workqueue: events od_dbs_timer [ 51.695069] 0000000000000009 ffff88043a2f5b68 ffffffff8161441c ffff88043a2f5ba8 [ 51.702602] ffffffff8103e540 0000000000000033 0000000000000001 ffff88043d5f8000 [ 51.710136] 00000000ffff0ce1 0000000000000001 ffff88044fc4fc08 ffff88043a2f5bb8 [ 51.717691] Call Trace: [ 51.720191] [<ffffffff8161441c>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b [ 51.725396] [<ffffffff8103e540>] warn_slowpath_common+0x70/0xa0 [ 51.731473] [<ffffffff8103e58a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [ 51.737378] [<ffffffff81025628>] native_smp_send_reschedule+0x58/0x60 [ 51.744013] [<ffffffff81072cfd>] wake_up_nohz_cpu+0x2d/0xa0 [ 51.749745] [<ffffffff8104f6bf>] add_timer_on+0x8f/0x110 [ 51.755214] [<ffffffff8105f6fe>] __queue_delayed_work+0x16e/0x1a0 [ 51.761470] [<ffffffff8105f251>] ? try_to_grab_pending+0xd1/0x1a0 [ 51.767724] [<ffffffff8105f78a>] mod_delayed_work_on+0x5a/0xa0 [ 51.773719] [<ffffffff814f6b5d>] gov_queue_work+0x4d/0xc0 [ 51.779271] [<ffffffff814f60cb>] od_dbs_timer+0xcb/0x170 [ 51.784734] [<ffffffff8105e75d>] process_one_work+0x1fd/0x540 [ 51.790634] [<ffffffff8105e6f2>] ? process_one_work+0x192/0x540 [ 51.796711] [<ffffffff8105ef22>] worker_thread+0x122/0x380 [ 51.802350] [<ffffffff8105ee00>] ? rescuer_thread+0x320/0x320 [ 51.808264] [<ffffffff8106634a>] kthread+0xea/0xf0 [ 51.813200] [<ffffffff81066260>] ? flush_kthread_worker+0x150/0x150 [ 51.819644] [<ffffffff81623d5c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 [ 51.918165] nouveau E[ DRM] GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon [ 51.930505] [<ffffffff81066260>] ? flush_kthread_worker+0x150/0x150 [ 51.936994] ---[ end trace f419538ada83b5c5 ]--- It was caused by the policy->cpus changed during the process of __gov_queue_work(), in other word, cpu offline happened. This patch will use get/put_online_cpus() to prevent the offline happen inside __gov_queue_work(), after applied the patch, the warning is gone as Jiri tested: Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/6/5/88 CC: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx> CC: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.c | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.c index 5af40ad..dc9b72e 100644 --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.c +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.c @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ #include <linux/tick.h> #include <linux/types.h> #include <linux/workqueue.h> +#include <linux/cpu.h> #include "cpufreq_governor.h" @@ -180,8 +181,10 @@ void gov_queue_work(struct dbs_data *dbs_data, struct cpufreq_policy *policy, if (!all_cpus) { __gov_queue_work(smp_processor_id(), dbs_data, delay); } else { + get_online_cpus(); for_each_cpu(i, policy->cpus) __gov_queue_work(i, dbs_data, delay); + put_online_cpus(); } } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gov_queue_work); -- 1.7.4.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cpufreq" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html