@@ -2204,10 +2204,7 @@ static int cpufreq_set_policy(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
return ret;
}
- up_write(&policy->rwsem);
ret = __cpufreq_governor(policy, CPUFREQ_GOV_POLICY_EXIT);
- down_write(&policy->rwsem);
-
if (ret) {
pr_err("%s: Failed to Exit Governor: %s (%d)\n",
__func__, old_gov->name, ret);
@@ -2223,9 +2220,7 @@ static int cpufreq_set_policy(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
if (!ret)
goto out;
- up_write(&policy->rwsem);
__cpufreq_governor(policy, CPUFREQ_GOV_POLICY_EXIT);
- down_write(&policy->rwsem);
}
/* new governor failed, so re-start old one */
@@ -100,10 +100,6 @@ struct cpufreq_policy {
* - Any routine that will write to the policy structure and/or may take away
* the policy altogether (eg. CPU hotplug), will hold this lock in write
* mode before doing so.
- *
- * Additional rules:
- * - Lock should not be held across
- * __cpufreq_governor(data, CPUFREQ_GOV_POLICY_EXIT);
*/
struct rw_semaphore rwsem;
Earlier, when the struct freq-attr was used to represent governor attributes, the standard cpufreq show/store sysfs attribute callbacks were applied to the governor tunable attributes and they always acquire the policy->rwsem lock before carrying out the operation. That could have resulted in an ABBA deadlock if governor tunable attributes are removed under policy->rwsem while one of them is being accessed concurrently (if sysfs attributes removal wins the race, it will wait for the access to complete with policy->rwsem held while the attribute callback will block on policy->rwsem indefinitely). We attempted to address this issue by dropping policy->rwsem around governor tunable attributes removal (that is, around invocations of the ->governor callback with the event arg equal to CPUFREQ_GOV_POLICY_EXIT) in cpufreq_set_policy(), but that opened up race conditions that had not been possible with policy->rwsem held all the time. The previous commit, "cpufreq: governor: New sysfs show/store callbacks for governor tunables", fixed the original ABBA deadlock by adding new governor specific show/store callbacks. We don't have to drop rwsem around invocations of governor event CPUFREQ_GOV_POLICY_EXIT anymore, and original fix can be reverted now. Fixes: 955ef4833574 ("cpufreq: Drop rwsem lock around CPUFREQ_GOV_POLICY_EXIT") Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Reported-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> Tested-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> Tested-by: Shilpasri G Bhat <shilpa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 5 ----- include/linux/cpufreq.h | 4 ---- 2 files changed, 9 deletions(-) -- 2.7.1.370.gb2aa7f8