This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
cpufreq: fix garbage kobjects on errors during suspend/resume
to the 3.12-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
cpufreq-fix-garbage-kobjects-on-errors-during-suspend-resume.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 2167e2399dc5e69c62db56d933e9c8cbe107620a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 12:14:32 +0100
Subject: cpufreq: fix garbage kobjects on errors during suspend/resume
From: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@xxxxxxx>
commit 2167e2399dc5e69c62db56d933e9c8cbe107620a upstream.
This is effectively a revert of commit 5302c3fb2e62 ("cpufreq: Perform
light-weight init/teardown during suspend/resume"), which enabled
suspend/resume optimizations leaving the sysfs files in place.
Errors during suspend/resume are not handled properly, leaving
dead sysfs attributes in case of failures. There are are number of
functions with special code for the "frozen" case, and all these
need to also have special error handling.
The problem is easy to demonstrate by making cpufreq_driver->init()
or cpufreq_driver->get() fail during resume.
The code is too complex for a simple fix, with split code paths
in multiple blocks within a number of functions. It is therefore
best to revert the patch enabling this code until the error handling
is in place.
Examples of problems resulting from resume errors:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6055 at fs/sysfs/file.c:343 sysfs_open_file+0x77/0x212()
missing sysfs attribute operations for kobject: (null)
Modules linked in: [stripped as irrelevant]
CPU: 0 PID: 6055 Comm: grep Tainted: G D 3.13.0-rc2 #153
Hardware name: LENOVO 2776LEG/2776LEG, BIOS 6EET55WW (3.15 ) 12/19/2011
0000000000000009 ffff8802327ebb78 ffffffff81380b0e 0000000000000006
ffff8802327ebbc8 ffff8802327ebbb8 ffffffff81038635 0000000000000000
ffffffff811823c7 ffff88021a19e688 ffff88021a19e688 ffff8802302f9310
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81380b0e>] dump_stack+0x55/0x76
[<ffffffff81038635>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7c/0x96
[<ffffffff811823c7>] ? sysfs_open_file+0x77/0x212
[<ffffffff810386e3>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x41/0x43
[<ffffffff81182dec>] ? sysfs_get_active+0x6b/0x82
[<ffffffff81182382>] ? sysfs_open_file+0x32/0x212
[<ffffffff811823c7>] sysfs_open_file+0x77/0x212
[<ffffffff81182350>] ? sysfs_schedule_callback+0x1ac/0x1ac
[<ffffffff81122562>] do_dentry_open+0x17c/0x257
[<ffffffff8112267e>] finish_open+0x41/0x4f
[<ffffffff81130225>] do_last+0x80c/0x9ba
[<ffffffff8112dbbd>] ? inode_permission+0x40/0x42
[<ffffffff81130606>] path_openat+0x233/0x4a1
[<ffffffff81130b7e>] do_filp_open+0x35/0x85
[<ffffffff8113b787>] ? __alloc_fd+0x172/0x184
[<ffffffff811232ea>] do_sys_open+0x6b/0xfa
[<ffffffff811233a7>] SyS_openat+0xf/0x11
[<ffffffff8138c812>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
The failure to restore cpufreq devices on cancelled hibernation is
not a new bug. It is caused by the ACPI _PPC call failing unless the
hibernate is completed. This makes the acpi_cpufreq driver fail its
init.
Previously, the cpufreq device could be restored by offlining the
cpu temporarily. And as a complete hibernation cycle would do this,
it would be automatically restored most of the time. But after
commit 5302c3fb2e62 the leftover sysfs attributes will block any
device add action. Therefore offlining and onlining CPU 1 will no
longer restore the cpufreq object, and a complete suspend/resume
cycle will replace it with garbage.
Fixes: 5302c3fb2e62 ("cpufreq: Perform light-weight init/teardown during suspend/resume")
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
@@ -2044,9 +2044,6 @@ static int cpufreq_cpu_callback(struct n
dev = get_cpu_device(cpu);
if (dev) {
- if (action & CPU_TASKS_FROZEN)
- frozen = true;
-
switch (action & ~CPU_TASKS_FROZEN) {
case CPU_ONLINE:
__cpufreq_add_dev(dev, NULL, frozen);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bjorn@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.12/cpufreq-fix-garbage-kobjects-on-errors-during-suspend-resume.patch
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