Do it before it's assigned to cpufreq_cpu_data, otherwise we can get this warning when a driver tries to get the cpu frequency during initialization: ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 64 at include/linux/kref.h:47 kobject_get+0x64/0x70() Modules linked in: CPU: 1 PID: 64 Comm: irq/77-tegra-ac Not tainted 3.18.0-rc4-next-20141114ccu-00050-g3eff942 #326 [<c0016fac>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c001272c>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14) [<c001272c>] (show_stack) from [<c06085d8>] (dump_stack+0x98/0xd8) [<c06085d8>] (dump_stack) from [<c002892c>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x84/0xb4) [<c002892c>] (warn_slowpath_common) from [<c00289f8>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x1c/0x24) [<c00289f8>] (warn_slowpath_null) from [<c0220290>] (kobject_get+0x64/0x70) [<c0220290>] (kobject_get) from [<c03e944c>] (cpufreq_cpu_get+0x88/0xc8) [<c03e944c>] (cpufreq_cpu_get) from [<c03e9500>] (cpufreq_get+0xc/0x64) [<c03e9500>] (cpufreq_get) from [<c0285288>] (actmon_thread_isr+0x134/0x198) [<c0285288>] (actmon_thread_isr) from [<c0069008>] (irq_thread_fn+0x1c/0x40) [<c0069008>] (irq_thread_fn) from [<c0069324>] (irq_thread+0x134/0x174) [<c0069324>] (irq_thread) from [<c0040290>] (kthread+0xdc/0xf4) [<c0040290>] (kthread) from [<c000f4b8>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x3c) ---[ end trace b7bd64a81b340c59 ]--- Signed-off-by: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 16 ++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c index 4473eba..954cb2f 100644 --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c @@ -898,12 +898,6 @@ static int cpufreq_add_dev_interface(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, struct freq_attr **drv_attr; int ret = 0; - /* prepare interface data */ - ret = kobject_init_and_add(&policy->kobj, &ktype_cpufreq, - &dev->kobj, "cpufreq"); - if (ret) - return ret; - /* set up files for this cpu device */ drv_attr = cpufreq_driver->attr; while ((drv_attr) && (*drv_attr)) { @@ -1211,6 +1205,15 @@ static int __cpufreq_add_dev(struct device *dev, struct subsys_interface *sif) } down_write(&policy->rwsem); + + /* prepare interface data */ + ret = kobject_init_and_add(&policy->kobj, &ktype_cpufreq, + &dev->kobj, "cpufreq"); + if (ret) { + pr_err("%s: failed to init policy->kobj: %d\n", __func__, ret); + goto err_init_policy_kobj; + } + write_lock_irqsave(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags); for_each_cpu(j, policy->cpus) per_cpu(cpufreq_cpu_data, j) = policy; @@ -1301,6 +1304,7 @@ err_get_freq: per_cpu(cpufreq_cpu_data, j) = NULL; write_unlock_irqrestore(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags); +err_init_policy_kobj: up_write(&policy->rwsem); if (cpufreq_driver->exit) -- 1.9.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tegra" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html