This interface is mainly intended (and implemented) for ACPI _PPC BIOS
frequency limitations, but other cpufreq drivers can also use it for
similar use-cases.
Why is this needed:
Currently it's not obvious why cpufreq got limited.
People see cpufreq/scaling_max_freq reduced, but this could have
happened by:
- any userspace prog writing to scaling_max_freq
- thermal limitations
- hardware (_PPC in ACPI case) limitiations
Therefore export bios_limit (in kHz) to:
- Point the user that it's the BIOS (broken or intended) which limits
frequency
- Export it as a sysfs interface for userspace progs.
While this was a rarely used feature on laptops, there will appear
more and more server implemenations providing "Green IT" features like
allowing the service processor to limit the frequency. People want
to know about HW/BIOS frequency limitations.
All ACPI P-state driven cpufreq drivers are covered with this patch:
- powernow-k8
- powernow-k7
- acpi-cpufreq
Tested with a patched DSDT which limits the first two cores (_PPC returns 1)
via _PPC, exposed by bios_limit:
# echo 2200000 >cpu2/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
# cat cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
2600000
2600000
2200000
2200000
# #scaling_max_freq shows general user/thermal/BIOS limitations
# cat cpu*/cpufreq/bios_limit
2600000
2600000
2800000
2800000
# #bios_limit only shows the HW/BIOS limitation
CC: Pallipadi Venkatesh <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
CC: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
CC: davej@codemonkey.org.uk
CC: linux@dominikbrodowski.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
No need to export these symbols; make them static.
cpufreq_add_dev_policy
cpufreq_add_dev_symlink
cpufreq_add_dev_interface
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Same adustments that have been added to the ondemand recently.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Dave,
Attached is an update of my patch against the cpufreq fixes branch.
Before applying the patch I compiled and booted the tree to see if the panic
was still there -- to my surprise it was not. This is because of the conversion
of cpufreq_cpu_governor to a char[].
While the panic is kaput, the problem of stale data continues and my patch is
still valid. It is possible to end up with the wrong governor after hotplug
events because CPUFREQ_DEFAULT_GOVERNOR is statically linked to a default,
while the cpu siblings may have had a different governor assigned by a user.
ie) the patch is still needed in order to keep the governors assigned
properly when hotplugging devices
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
ondemand and conservative governors are messing up time units in the
code path where NO_HZ is not enabled and ignore_nice is set. The walltime
idletime stored is in jiffies and nice time calculation is happening in
microseconds.
The problem was reported and diagnosed by Alexander here.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125752550404513&w=2
The patch below fixes this thinko.
Reported-by: Alexander Miller <Miller@fmi.uni-stuttgart.de>
Tested-by: Alexander Miller <Miller@fmi.uni-stuttgart.de>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Currently on governer backup/restore path we storing governor's pointer.
This is wrong because one may unload governor's module after cpu goes
offline. As result use-after-free will take place on restored cpu.
It is not easy to exploit this bug, but still we have to close this
issue ASAP. Issue was introduced by following commit
084f349394
##TESTCASE##
#!/bin/sh -x
modprobe acpi_cpufreq
# Any non default governor, in may case it is "ondemand"
modprobe cpufreq_ondemand
echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
rmmod acpi_cpufreq
rmmod cpufreq_ondemand
modprobe acpi_cpufreq # << use-after-free here.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
This patch updates percpu related symbols in cpufreq such that percpu
symbols are unique and don't clash with local symbols. This serves
two purposes of decreasing the possibility of global percpu symbol
collision and allowing dropping per_cpu__ prefix from percpu symbols.
* drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c: s/policy_cpu/cpufreq_policy_cpu/
* drivers/cpufreq/freq_table.c: s/show_table/cpufreq_show_table/
* arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c: s/drv_data/acfreq_data/
s/old_perf/acfreq_old_perf/
Partly based on Rusty Russell's "alloc_percpu: rename percpu vars
which cause name clashes" patch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
remove rwsem lock from CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP call (second call site)
commit 42a06f2166
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
read 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: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
CC: rjw@sisk.pl
CC: mingo@elte.hu
CC: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
CC: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
CC: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
CC: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
CC: trenn@suse.de
CC: sven.wegener@stealer.net
CC: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Ondemand has only global variables for userspace tunings via sysfs.
But they were exposed per CPU which wrongly implies to the user that
his settings are applied per cpu. Also locking sysfs against concurrent
access won't be necessary anymore after deprecation time.
This means the ondemand config dir is moved:
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/ondemand ->
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ondemand
The old files will still exist, but reading or writing to them will
result in one (printk_once) deprecation msg to syslog per file.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Currently everything in the cpufreq layer is per core based.
This does not reflect reality, for example ondemand on conservative
governors have global sysfs variables.
Introduce a global cpufreq directory and add the kobject to the governor
struct, so that governors can easily access it.
The directory is initialized in the cpufreq_core_init initcall and thus will
always be created if cpufreq is compiled in, even if no cpufreq driver is
active later.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Doing:
echo 0 >cpu1/online
echo 1 >cpu1/online
on a managed CPU will result in:
Jul 22 15:15:37 linux kernel: [ 80.013864] WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:487 sysfs_add_one+0xcf/0xe6()
Jul 22 15:15:37 linux kernel: [ 80.013866] Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Jul 22 15:15:37 linux kernel: [ 80.013868] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq'
Jul 22 15:15:37 linux kernel: [ 80.013870] Modules linked in: powernow_k8
Jul 22 15:15:37 linux kernel: [ 80.013874] Pid: 5750, comm: bash Not tainted 2.6.31-rc2 #40
Jul 22 15:15:37 linux kernel: [ 80.013876] Call Trace:
Jul 22 15:15:37 linux kernel: [ 80.013879] [<ffffffff8112ebda>] ? sysfs_add_one+0xcf/0xe6
Jul 22 15:15:37 linux kernel: [ 80.013884] [<ffffffff81041926>] warn_slowpath_common+0x77/0xa4
Jul 22 15:15:37 linux kernel: [ 80.013888] [<ffffffff810419a0>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x3c/0x3e
Jul 22 15:15:37 linux kernel: [ 80.013891] [<ffffffff8112ebda>] sysfs_add_one+0xcf/0xe6
Jul 22 15:15:37 linux kernel: [ 80.013894] [<ffffffff8112f213>] create_dir+0x58/0x87
Jul 22 15:15:37 linux kernel: [ 80.013898] [<ffffffff8112f27a>] sysfs_create_dir+0x38/0x4f
Jul 22 15:15:37 linux kernel: [ 80.013902] [<ffffffff811ffb8a>] kobject_add_internal+0x11f/0x1de
Jul 22 15:15:37 linux kernel: [ 80.013905] [<ffffffff811ffd21>] kobject_add_varg+0x41/0x4e
Jul 22 15:15:37 linux kernel: [ 80.013908] [<ffffffff811ffd7a>] kobject_init_and_add+0x4c/0x57
Jul 22 15:15:37 linux kernel: [ 80.013913] [<ffffffff810667bc>] ? mark_lock+0x22/0x228
Jul 22 15:15:37 linux kernel: [ 80.013918] [<ffffffff813e8a3b>] cpufreq_add_dev_interface+0x40/0x1e4
...
This bug slipped in by git commit:
150b06f7f223cfd0f808737a5243cceca8ea47fa
When splitting up cpufreq_add_dev, the whole cpufreq_add_dev function
is not left anymore, only cpufreq_add_dev_policy.
This patch should reconstruct the identical functionality again as it
was before the split.
CC: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Commit 4bc5d34135 is broken and causes regressions:
(1) cpufreq_driver->resume() and ->suspend() were only called on
__powerpc__, but you could set them on all architectures. In fact,
->resume() was defined and used before the PPC-related commit
42d4dc3f4e complained about in 4bc5d34135.
(2) Therfore, the resume functions in acpi_cpufreq and speedstep-smi
would never be called.
(3) This means speedstep-smi would be unusuable after suspend or resume.
The _real_ problem was calling cpufreq_driver->get() with interrupts
off, but it re-enabling interrupts on some platforms. Why is ->get()
necessary?
Some systems like to change the CPU frequency behind our
back, especially during BIOS-intensive operations like suspend or
resume. If such systems also use a CPU frequency-dependant timing loop,
delays might be off by large factors. Therefore, we need to ascertain
as soon as possible that the CPU frequency is indeed at the speed we
think it is. You can do this two ways: either setting it anew, or trying
to get it. The latter is what was done, the former also has the same IRQ
issue.
So, let's try something different: defer the checking to after interrupts
are re-enabled, by calling cpufreq_update_policy() (via schedule_work()).
Timings may be off until this later stage, so let's watch out for
resume regressions caused by the deferred handling of frequency changes
behind the kernel's back.
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
The suspend code runs with interrupts disabled, and the powerpc workaround we
do in the cpufreq suspend hook calls the drivers ->get method.
powernow-k8's ->get does an smp_call_function_single
which needs interrupts enabled
cpufreq's suspend/resume code was added in 42d4dc3f4e to work around
a hardware problem on ppc powerbooks. If we make all this code
conditional on powerpc, we avoid the issue above.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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:
3f4a782b5c
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>
Suspend/Resume fails on multi socket, multi core systems because the cpufreq
code erroneously sets the per_cpu policy_cpu value when a logical cpu is
offline.
This most notably results in missing sysfs files that are used to set the
cpu frequencies of the various cpus.
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Commit ee88415caf
introduced this regression when it removed enable bit in cpu_dbs_info_s.
That added a possibility of dbs_cpufreq_notifier getting called for a
CPU that is not yet managed by conservative governor. That will happen
as the transition notifier is set as soon as one CPU switches to
conservative governor and other CPUs can get a NULL pointer dereference
without the enable bit check. Add the enable bit back again.
Reported-by: Lermytte Christophe <Christophe.Lermytte@thomson.net>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
OK, I've tried to clean it up the best I could, but please test this with
concurrent cpu hotplug and cpufreq add/remove in loops. I'm sure we will make
other interesting findings.
This is step one of fixing the overall locking dependency mess in cpufreq.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
CC: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
CC: rjw@sisk.pl
CC: mingo@elte.hu
CC: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
CC: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
CC: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
CC: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
CC: sven.wegener@stealer.net
CC: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
CC: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Redesign the locking inside conservative driver. Make dbs_mutex handle all the
global state changes inside the driver and invent a new percpu mutex
to serialize percpu timer and frequency limit change.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Redesign the locking inside ondemand driver. Make dbs_mutex handle all the
global state changes inside the driver and invent a new percpu mutex
to serialize percpu timer and frequency limit change.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Commit b14893a62c although it was very
much needed to properly cleanup ondemand timer, opened-up a can of worms
related to locking dependencies in cpufreq.
Patch here defines the need for dbs_mutex and cleans up its usage in
ondemand governor. This also resolves the lockdep warnings reported here
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0906.1/01925.htmlhttp://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0907.0/00820.html
and few others..
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Percpu variable definition is about to be updated such that all percpu
symbols including the static ones must be unique. Update percpu
variable definitions accordingly.
* as,cfq: rename ioc_count uniquely
* cpufreq: rename cpu_dbs_info uniquely
* xen: move nesting_count out of xen_evtchn_do_upcall() and rename it
* mm: move ratelimits out of balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr() and
rename it
* ipv4,6: rename cookie_scratch uniquely
* x86 perf_counter: rename prev_left to pmc_prev_left, irq_entry to
pmc_irq_entry and nmi_entry to pmc_nmi_entry
* perf_counter: rename disable_count to perf_disable_count
* ftrace: rename test_event_disable to ftrace_test_event_disable
* kmemleak: rename test_pointer to kmemleak_test_pointer
* mce: rename next_interval to mce_next_interval
[ Impact: percpu usage cleanups, no duplicate static percpu var names ]
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Update the documentation accordingly.
Cleanup and use printk_once.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
With this patch you have following minimal sampling rate restrictions:
Kernel restrictions:
If CONFIG_NO_HZ is set, the limit is 10ms fixed.
If CONFIG_NO_HZ is not set or no_hz=off boot parameter is used, the
limits depend on the CONFIG_HZ option:
HZ=1000: min=20000us (20ms)
HZ=250: min=80000us (80ms)
HZ=100: min=200000us (200ms)
HW restrictions:
Do not sample/poll more often than HW latency * 100 exported by the low
level cpufreq HW driver
The higher value of above restrictions is the minimal sampling rate
that can be set (and can be seen via ondemand/sampling_rate_min sysfs file)
Default sampling rate still is HW latency * 1000, but this will now end
up in lower values on latest (Intel and AMD) hardware as these can switch
really fast and sampling rate mostly was limited to the 80ms or 200ms
(depending on whether HZ=250 or HZ=1000 is used).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Pallipadi Venkatesh <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
These are defined as static cpumask_var_t so if MAXSMP is not used,
they are cleared already. Avoid surprises when MAXSMP is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* Rafael J. Wysocki (rjw@sisk.pl) wrote:
> This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report
> of regressions introduced between 2.6.28 and 2.6.29.
>
> The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
> introduced between 2.6.28 and 2.6.29. Please verify if it still should
> be listed and let me know (either way).
>
>
> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13186
> Subject : cpufreq timer teardown problem
> Submitter : Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
> Date : 2009-04-23 14:00 (24 days old)
> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124049523515036&w=4
> Handled-By : Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
> Patch : http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/19754/
> http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/19753/
>
(updated changelog)
cpufreq fix timer teardown in ondemand governor
The problem is that dbs_timer_exit() uses cancel_delayed_work() when it should
use cancel_delayed_work_sync(). cancel_delayed_work() does not wait for the
workqueue handler to exit.
The ondemand governor does not seem to be affected because the
"if (!dbs_info->enable)" check at the beginning of the workqueue handler returns
immediately without rescheduling the work. The conservative governor in
2.6.30-rc has the same check as the ondemand governor, which makes things
usually run smoothly. However, if the governor is quickly stopped and then
started, this could lead to the following race :
dbs_enable could be reenabled and multiple do_dbs_timer handlers would run.
This is why a synchronized teardown is required.
The following patch applies to, at least, 2.6.28.x, 2.6.29.1, 2.6.30-rc2.
Depends on patch
cpufreq: remove rwsem lock from CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP call
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
CC: gregkh@suse.de
CC: stable@kernel.org
CC: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: rjw@sisk.pl
CC: Ben Slusky <sluskyb@paranoiacs.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
* Rafael J. Wysocki (rjw@sisk.pl) wrote:
> This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report
> of regressions introduced between 2.6.28 and 2.6.29.
>
> The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
> introduced between 2.6.28 and 2.6.29. Please verify if it still should
> be listed and let me know (either way).
>
>
> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13186
> Subject : cpufreq timer teardown problem
> Submitter : Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
> Date : 2009-04-23 14:00 (24 days old)
> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124049523515036&w=4
> Handled-By : Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
> Patch : http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/19754/
> http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/19753/
>
(re-send with updated changelog)
cpufreq fix timer teardown in conservative governor
The problem is that dbs_timer_exit() uses cancel_delayed_work() when it should
use cancel_delayed_work_sync(). cancel_delayed_work() does not wait for the
workqueue handler to exit.
The ondemand governor does not seem to be affected because the
"if (!dbs_info->enable)" check at the beginning of the workqueue handler returns
immediately without rescheduling the work. The conservative governor in
2.6.30-rc has the same check as the ondemand governor, which makes things
usually run smoothly. However, if the governor is quickly stopped and then
started, this could lead to the following race :
dbs_enable could be reenabled and multiple do_dbs_timer handlers would run.
This is why a synchronized teardown is required.
Depends on patch
cpufreq: remove rwsem lock from CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP call
The following patch applies to 2.6.30-rc2. Stable kernels have a similar
issue which should also be fixed, but the code changed between 2.6.29
and 2.6.30, so this patch only applies to 2.6.30-rc.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
CC: gregkh@suse.de
CC: stable@kernel.org
CC: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: rjw@sisk.pl
CC: Ben Slusky <sluskyb@paranoiacs.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
* Rafael J. Wysocki (rjw@sisk.pl) wrote:
> This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report
> of regressions introduced between 2.6.28 and 2.6.29.
>
> The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
> introduced between 2.6.28 and 2.6.29. Please verify if it still should
> be listed and let me know (either way).
>
>
> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13186
> Subject : cpufreq timer teardown problem
> Submitter : Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
> Date : 2009-04-23 14:00 (24 days old)
> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124049523515036&w=4
> Handled-By : Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
> Patch : http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/19754/
> http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/19753/
The patches linked above depend on the following patch to remove
circular locking dependency :
cpufreq: remove rwsem lock from CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP call
(the following issue was faced when using cancel_delayed_work_sync() in the
timer teardown (which fixes a race).
* KOSAKI Motohiro (kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com) wrote:
> Hi
>
> my box output following warnings.
> it seems regression by commit 7ccc7608b836e58fbacf65ee4f8eefa288e86fac.
>
> A: work -> do_dbs_timer() -> cpu_policy_rwsem
> B: store() -> cpu_policy_rwsem -> cpufreq_governor_dbs() -> work
>
>
Hrm, I think it must be due to my attempt to fix the timer teardown race
in ondemand governor mixed with new locking behavior in 2.6.30-rc.
The rwlock seems to be taken around the whole call to
cpufreq_governor_dbs(), when it should be only taken around accesses to
the locked data, and especially *not* around the call to
dbs_timer_exit().
Reverting my fix attempt would put the teardown race back in place
(replacing the cancel_delayed_work_sync by cancel_delayed_work).
Instead, a proper fix would imply modifying this critical section :
cpufreq.c: __cpufreq_remove_dev()
...
if (cpufreq_driver->target)
__cpufreq_governor(data, CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP);
unlock_policy_rwsem_write(cpu);
To make sure the __cpufreq_governor() callback is not called with rwsem
held. This would allow execution of cancel_delayed_work_sync() without
being nested within the rwsem.
Applies on top of the 2.6.30-rc5 tree.
Required to remove circular dep in teardown of both conservative and
ondemande governors so they can use cancel_delayed_work_sync().
CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP does not modify the policy, therefore this locking seemed
unneeded.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
CC: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
CC: Ben Slusky <sluskyb@paranoiacs.org>
CC: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
This reverts commit e088e4c9cd.
Removing the sysfs interface for p4-clockmod was flagged as a
regression in bug 12826.
Course of action:
- Find out the remaining causes of overheating, and fix them
if possible. ACPI should be doing the right thing automatically.
If it isn't, we need to fix that.
- mark p4-clockmod ui as deprecated
- try again with the removal in six months.
It's not really feasible to printk about the deprecation, because
it needs to happen at all the sysfs entry points, which means adding
a lot of strcmp("p4-clockmod".. calls to the core, which.. bleuch.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
AMD users get particular hit by this issue (bug 8081) as it caps at
typically 90 seconds as the minimum period for a frequency change.
Harsh eh? Years ago I borked this buy puting the 10x in the wrong
place...I fix that by removing it altogether.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
As conservative is based off ondemand the codebases occasionally need to be
resync'd. This patch, although ugly, does this.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
When someone added the dbs_cpufreq_notifier section to the governor the
code ended up causing the frequency to only fall. This is because
requested_freq is tinkered with and that should only modified if it has
an invlaid value due to changes in the available frequency ranges
This should fix#10055.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Limit sampling rate to transition_latency * 100 or kernel limits.
If sampling_rate is tried to be set too low, set the lowest allowed value.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
The same info can be obtained via the transition_latency sysfs file
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
It's not only useful for the ondemand and conservative governors, but
also for userspace daemons to know about the HW transition latency of
the CPU.
It is especially useful for userspace to know about this value when
the ondemand or conservative governors are run. The sampling rate
control value depends on it and for userspace being able to set sane
tuning values there it has to know about the transition latency.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
ondemand micro-accounting of idle time changes broke ignore_nice_load
sysfs setting due to a thinko in the code.
The bug entry:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12310
Reported-by: Jim Bray <jimsantelmo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
It is always "an" if there is a vowel _spoken_ (not written).
So it is:
"an hour" (spoken vowel)
but
"a uniform" (spoken 'j')
Signed-off-by: Frederik Schwarzer <schwarzerf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Impact: use new cpumask API to reduce memory usage
This is part of an effort to reduce structure sizes for machines
configured with large NR_CPUS. cpumask_t gets replaced by
cpumask_var_t, which is either struct cpumask[1] (small NR_CPUS) or
struct cpumask * (large NR_CPUS).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thomas Renninger