[CPUFREQ] Fix a kobject reference bug related to managed CPUs
The first offline/online cycle is successful, the second not. Doing: echo 0 >cpu1/online echo 1 >cpu1/online echo 0 >cpu1/online The last command will trigger: Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [ 593.210125] ------------[ cut here ]------------ Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [ 593.210139] WARNING: at lib/kref.c:43 kref_get+0x23/0x2b() Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [ 593.210144] Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [ 593.210148] Modules linked in: powernow_k8 Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [ 593.210158] Pid: 378, comm: kondemand/2 Tainted: G W 2.6.31-rc2 #38 Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [ 593.210163] Call Trace: Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [ 593.210171] [<ffffffff812008e8>] ? kref_get+0x23/0x2b Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [ 593.210181] [<ffffffff81041926>] warn_slowpath_common+0x77/0xa4 Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [ 593.210190] [<ffffffff81041962>] warn_slowpath_null+0xf/0x11 Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [ 593.210198] [<ffffffff812008e8>] kref_get+0x23/0x2b Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [ 593.210206] [<ffffffff811ffa19>] kobject_get+0x1a/0x22 Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [ 593.210214] [<ffffffff813e815d>] cpufreq_cpu_get+0x8a/0xcb Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [ 593.210222] [<ffffffff813e87d1>] __cpufreq_driver_getavg+0x1d/0x67 Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [ 593.210231] [<ffffffff813ea18f>] do_dbs_timer+0x158/0x27f Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [ 593.210240] [<ffffffff810529ea>] worker_thread+0x200/0x313 ... The output continues on every do_dbs_timer ondemand freq checking poll. This regression was introduced by git commit: 3f4a782b The policy is released when the cpufreq device is removed in: __cpufreq_remove_dev(): /* if this isn't the CPU which is the parent of the kobj, we * only need to unlink, put and exit */ Not creating the symlink is not sever at all. As long as: sysfs_remove_link(&sys_dev->kobj, "cpufreq"); handles it gracefully that the symlink did not exist. Possibly no error should be returned at all, because ondemand governor would still provide the same functionality. Userspace in userspace gov case might be confused if the link is missing. Resolves http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13903 CC: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> CC: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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