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From: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
To: rjw@sisk.pl, lenb@kernel.org
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com,
	pdeschrijver@nvidia.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	patches@linaro.org, linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] cpuidle : move driver checking within the lock section
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:43:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1348526634-19029-3-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1348526634-19029-1-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>

The code checks if the driver is already set without taking the lock,
but, right after, it takes the lock to assign the variable.

If it is safe to check the variable without lock, then it is safe to
assign it without lock. If it is unsafe to assign without a lock, then
it is unsafe to check it without a lock.

I don't find a path in the different drivers where that could happen
because the arch specific drivers are written in such way it is not
possible to register a driver while it is unregistered, except maybe
in a very improbable case when "intel_idle" and "processor_idle" are
competing. One could unregister a driver, while the other one is
registering.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
---
 drivers/cpuidle/driver.c |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/driver.c b/drivers/cpuidle/driver.c
index 39ba8e1..4a0c4ab 100644
--- a/drivers/cpuidle/driver.c
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/driver.c
@@ -85,17 +85,17 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpuidle_get_driver);
  */
 void cpuidle_unregister_driver(struct cpuidle_driver *drv)
 {
+	spin_lock(&cpuidle_driver_lock);
+
 	if (drv != cpuidle_curr_driver) {
 		WARN(1, "invalid cpuidle_unregister_driver(%s)\n",
 			drv->name);
-		return;
+		goto out;
 	}
 
-	spin_lock(&cpuidle_driver_lock);
-
 	if (!WARN_ON(drv->refcnt > 0))
 		cpuidle_curr_driver = NULL;
-
+out:
 	spin_unlock(&cpuidle_driver_lock);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpuidle_unregister_driver);
-- 
1.7.5.4


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-24 22:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-24 22:43 [PATCH 0/4] cpuidle - support multiple drivers at a time Daniel Lezcano
2012-09-24 22:43 ` [PATCH 1/4] cpuidle : move driver's refcount to cpuidle Daniel Lezcano
2012-09-24 22:43 ` Daniel Lezcano [this message]
     [not found]   ` <1348526634-19029-3-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2012-10-07 20:17     ` [PATCH 2/4] cpuidle : move driver checking within the lock section Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-09-24 22:43 ` [PATCH 3/4] cpuidle - prepare the driver core to be multi drivers aware Daniel Lezcano
2012-09-24 22:43 ` [PATCH 4/4] cpuidle - support multiple drivers Daniel Lezcano
     [not found]   ` <1348526634-19029-5-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2012-09-29  9:41     ` Francesco Lavra
2012-09-29 17:44       ` Daniel Lezcano
2012-09-29 22:07         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-09-30 16:34           ` Daniel Lezcano
2012-10-02  2:08             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
     [not found]               ` <3723306.GAm1cPlZaP-sKB8Sp2ER+y1GS7QM15AGw@public.gmane.org>
2012-10-02 12:27                 ` Daniel Lezcano
2012-10-02 14:02                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-10-04 14:14   ` Peter De Schrijver
2012-10-04 14:26     ` Daniel Lezcano
2012-10-04 14:34       ` Peter De Schrijver
2012-10-07 21:09         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-10-07 21:26   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-10-11 10:04     ` Daniel Lezcano
2012-10-11 17:21       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-10-11 17:39         ` Daniel Lezcano
2012-10-04 14:16 ` [PATCH 0/4] cpuidle - support multiple drivers at a time Peter De Schrijver
2012-10-04 14:27   ` Daniel Lezcano

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