Commit b253d2b2d28ead6fed012feb54694b3d0562839a although it was very much needed to cleanup ondemand timer cleanly, openup a can of worms related to locking dependencies in cpufreq. Patch here defines the need for dbs_mutex and cleans up its usage in conservative governor. This also resolves the lockdep warnings in conservative governor which would be similar to one reported here http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0906.1/01925.html Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c | 26 ++++++++++++-------------- 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c index 7fc58af..581d057 100644 --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c @@ -70,15 +70,14 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpu_dbs_info_s, cpu_dbs_info); static unsigned int dbs_enable; /* number of CPUs using this policy */ /* - * DEADLOCK ALERT! There is a ordering requirement between cpu_hotplug - * lock and dbs_mutex. cpu_hotplug lock should always be held before - * dbs_mutex. If any function that can potentially take cpu_hotplug lock - * (like __cpufreq_driver_target()) is being called with dbs_mutex taken, then - * cpu_hotplug lock should be taken before that. Note that cpu_hotplug lock - * is recursive for the same process. -Venki - * DEADLOCK ALERT! (2) : do_dbs_timer() must not take the dbs_mutex, because it - * would deadlock with cancel_delayed_work_sync(), which is needed for proper - * raceless workqueue teardown. + * dbs_mutex protects data in dbs_tuners_ins from concurrent changes on + * different CPUs. It also serializes dbs_enable usage in CPUFREQ_GOV_START + * and CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP. + * + * dbs_mutex should be always held after lock_policy_rwsem whenever needed. + * do_dbs_timer() must not take the dbs_mutex, because it would deadlock + * with cancel_delayed_work_sync(), which is needed for proper raceless + * workqueue teardown. */ static DEFINE_MUTEX(dbs_mutex); @@ -590,15 +589,16 @@ static int cpufreq_governor_dbs(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, &dbs_cpufreq_notifier_block, CPUFREQ_TRANSITION_NOTIFIER); } - dbs_timer_init(this_dbs_info); - mutex_unlock(&dbs_mutex); + dbs_timer_init(this_dbs_info); + break; case CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP: - mutex_lock(&dbs_mutex); dbs_timer_exit(this_dbs_info); + + mutex_lock(&dbs_mutex); sysfs_remove_group(&policy->kobj, &dbs_attr_group); dbs_enable--; @@ -616,7 +616,6 @@ static int cpufreq_governor_dbs(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, break; case CPUFREQ_GOV_LIMITS: - mutex_lock(&dbs_mutex); if (policy->max < this_dbs_info->cur_policy->cur) __cpufreq_driver_target( this_dbs_info->cur_policy, @@ -625,7 +624,6 @@ static int cpufreq_governor_dbs(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, __cpufreq_driver_target( this_dbs_info->cur_policy, policy->min, CPUFREQ_RELATION_L); - mutex_unlock(&dbs_mutex); break; } -- 1.6.0.6 -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
