Patch "tick/powerclamp: Remove tick_nohz_idle abuse" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[gregkh@linuxfoundation.org]

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    tick/powerclamp: Remove tick_nohz_idle abuse

to the 3.18-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:
     tick-powerclamp-remove-tick_nohz_idle-abuse.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From a5fd9733a30d18d7ac23f17080e7e07bb3205b69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 11:51:01 +0100
Subject: tick/powerclamp: Remove tick_nohz_idle abuse

From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

commit a5fd9733a30d18d7ac23f17080e7e07bb3205b69 upstream.

commit 4dbd27711cd9 "tick: export nohz tick idle symbols for module
use" was merged via the thermal tree without an explicit ack from the
relevant maintainers.

The exports are abused by the intel powerclamp driver which implements
a fake idle state from a sched FIFO task. This causes all kinds of
wreckage in the NOHZ core code which rightfully assumes that
tick_nohz_idle_enter/exit() are only called from the idle task itself.

Recent changes in the NOHZ core lead to a failure of the powerclamp
driver and now people try to hack completely broken and backwards
workarounds into the NOHZ core code. This is completely unacceptable
and just papers over the real problem. There are way more subtle
issues lurking around the corner.

The real solution is to fix the powerclamp driver by rewriting it with
a sane concept, but that's beyond the scope of this.

So the only solution for now is to remove the calls into the core NOHZ
code from the powerclamp trainwreck along with the exports.

Fixes: d6d71ee4a14a "PM: Introduce Intel PowerClamp Driver"
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Pan Jacob jun <jacob.jun.pan@intel.com>
Cc: LKP <lkp@01.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1412181110110.17382(a)nanos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/thermal/intel_powerclamp.c |    2 --
 kernel/time/tick-sched.c           |    2 --
 2 files changed, 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/thermal/intel_powerclamp.c
+++ b/drivers/thermal/intel_powerclamp.c
@@ -435,7 +435,6 @@ static int clamp_thread(void *arg)
 		 * allowed. thus jiffies are updated properly.
 		 */
 		preempt_disable();
-		tick_nohz_idle_enter();
 		/* mwait until target jiffies is reached */
 		while (time_before(jiffies, target_jiffies)) {
 			unsigned long ecx = 1;
@@ -451,7 +450,6 @@ static int clamp_thread(void *arg)
 			start_critical_timings();
 			atomic_inc(&idle_wakeup_counter);
 		}
-		tick_nohz_idle_exit();
 		preempt_enable();
 	}
 	del_timer_sync(&wakeup_timer);
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -847,7 +847,6 @@ void tick_nohz_idle_enter(void)
 
 	local_irq_enable();
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tick_nohz_idle_enter);
 
 /**
  * tick_nohz_irq_exit - update next tick event from interrupt exit
@@ -974,7 +973,6 @@ void tick_nohz_idle_exit(void)
 
 	local_irq_enable();
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tick_nohz_idle_exit);
 
 static int tick_nohz_reprogram(struct tick_sched *ts, ktime_t now)
 {


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tglx(a)linutronix.de are

queue-3.18/tick-powerclamp-remove-tick_nohz_idle-abuse.patch