[PATCH 2/2] remove rwsem lock from CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP call (second call site)

Thomas Renninger
2009-06-25T14:01:59Z

From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>

Missed a call site for CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP to remove the rwlock taken around the
teardown. To make a long story short, the rwlock write-lock causes a circular
dependency with cancel_delayed_work_sync(), because the timer handler takes the
write lock.

Note that all callers to __cpufreq_set_policy are taking the rwsem. All sysfs
callers (writers) hold the write rwsem at the earliest sysfs calling stage.

However, the rwlock write-lock is not needed upon governor stop.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
---
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
index 6e2ec0b..7e7ff1b 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(cpufreq_driver_lock);
* are concerned with are online after they get the lock.
* - Governor routines that can be called in cpufreq hotplug path should not
* take this sem as top level hotplug notifier handler takes this.
+ * - Lock should not be held across
+ * __cpufreq_governor(data, CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP);
*/
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, policy_cpu);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rw_semaphore, cpu_policy_rwsem);
@@ -1697,8 +1699,17 @@ static int __cpufreq_set_policy(struct cpufreq_policy *data,
dprintk("governor switch\n");

/* end old governor */
- if (data->governor)
+ if (data->governor) {
+ /*
+ * Need to release the rwsem around governor
+ * stop due to lock dependency between
+ * cancel_delayed_work_sync and the read lock
+ * taken in the delayed work handler.
+ */
+ unlock_policy_rwsem_write(data->cpu);
__cpufreq_governor(data, CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP);
+ lock_policy_rwsem_write(data->cpu);
+ }

/* start new governor */
data->governor = policy->governor;
--
1.6.0.2