Hi,
Ping, any comment for the patches ?
thanks,
-minskey
On 09/17/2010 02:03 PM, minskey guo wrote:
The patch is to create ips_adjust thread before ips_monitor begins
to run because the latter will kthread_stop() or wake up the former
via ips->adjust pointer. Without this change, it is possible that
ips->adjust is NULL when kthread_stop() or wake_up_process() is
called in ips_monitor().
Signed-off-by: minskey guo<chaohong.guo@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jesse Barnes<jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/platform/x86/intel_ips.c | 22 +++++++++++++---------
1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/intel_ips.c b/drivers/platform/x86/intel_ips.c
index 71dcc41..cb59ebd 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/intel_ips.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/intel_ips.c
@@ -940,7 +940,6 @@ static int ips_monitor(void *data)
kfree(mch_samples);
kfree(cpu_samples);
kfree(mchp_samples);
- kthread_stop(ips->adjust);
return -ENOMEM;
}
@@ -1535,19 +1534,24 @@ static int ips_probe(struct pci_dev *dev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
ips_enable_cpu_turbo(ips);
ips->cpu_turbo_enabled = true;
- /* Set up the work queue and monitor/adjust threads */
- ips->monitor = kthread_run(ips_monitor, ips, "ips-monitor");
- if (IS_ERR(ips->monitor)) {
+ /* Create thermal adjust thread */
+ ips->adjust = kthread_create(ips_adjust, ips, "ips-adjust");
+ if (IS_ERR(ips->adjust)) {
dev_err(&dev->dev,
- "failed to create thermal monitor thread, aborting\n");
+ "failed to create thermal adjust thread, aborting\n");
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto error_free_irq;
+
}
- ips->adjust = kthread_create(ips_adjust, ips, "ips-adjust");
- if (IS_ERR(ips->adjust)) {
+ /*
+ * Set up the work queue and monitor thread. The monitor thread
+ * will wake up ips_adjust thread.
+ */
+ ips->monitor = kthread_run(ips_monitor, ips, "ips-monitor");
+ if (IS_ERR(ips->monitor)) {
dev_err(&dev->dev,
- "failed to create thermal adjust thread, aborting\n");
+ "failed to create thermal monitor thread, aborting\n");
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto error_thread_cleanup;
}
@@ -1566,7 +1570,7 @@ static int ips_probe(struct pci_dev *dev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
return ret;
error_thread_cleanup:
- kthread_stop(ips->monitor);
+ kthread_stop(ips->adjust);
error_free_irq:
free_irq(ips->dev->irq, ips);
error_unmap:
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