Re: thermal / x86: Fix init error code path in package temperature driver

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>]

On Saturday, July 20, 2013 11:30:44 PM Srinivas Pandruvada wrote:
> Hi Rafael,
> 
> This is already fixed and currently merged to MM tree. So this should 
> make to rc2.
> I don't know whether Rui will push or MM maintainer will push this change.

Usually Andrew Morton (who maintains -mm) prefers maintainers to push things to
Linus.

Thanks,
Rafael


> On 07/20/2013 01:48 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> >
> > The error code path of the x86 package temperature thermal driver's
> > initialization routine, pkg_temp_thermal_init(), makes an unbalanced
> > call to get_online_cpus(), which causes subsequent CPU offline
> > operations, and consequently system suspend, to permanently block
> > in cpu_hotplug_begin() on systems where get_core_online() returns
> > an error code.
> >
> > Remove the extra get_online_cpus() to fix the problem (tested on
> > Toshiba Portege R500).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> > ---
> >   drivers/thermal/x86_pkg_temp_thermal.c |    1 -
> >   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > Index: linux-pm/drivers/thermal/x86_pkg_temp_thermal.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-pm.orig/drivers/thermal/x86_pkg_temp_thermal.c
> > +++ linux-pm/drivers/thermal/x86_pkg_temp_thermal.c
> > @@ -592,7 +592,6 @@ static int __init pkg_temp_thermal_init(
> >   	return 0;
> >   
> >   err_ret:
> > -	get_online_cpus();
> >   	for_each_online_cpu(i)
> >   		put_core_offline(i);
> >   	put_online_cpus();
> >
> >
> 
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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.