cpufreq: governor: Create and traverse list of policy_dbs to avoid deadlock
The dbs_data_mutex lock is currently used in two places. First,
cpufreq_governor_dbs() uses it to guarantee mutual exclusion between
invocations of governor operations from the core. Second, it is used by
ondemand governor's update_sampling_rate() to ensure the stability of
data structures walked by it.
The second usage is quite problematic, because update_sampling_rate() is
called from a governor sysfs attribute's ->store callback and that leads
to a deadlock scenario involving cpufreq_governor_exit() which runs
under dbs_data_mutex. Thus it is better to rework the code so
update_sampling_rate() doesn't need to acquire dbs_data_mutex.
To that end, rework update_sampling_rate() to walk a list of policy_dbs
objects supported by the dbs_data one it has been called for (instead of
walking cpu_dbs_info object for all CPUs). The list manipulation is
protected with dbs_data->mutex which also is held around the execution
of update_sampling_rate(), it is not necessary to hold dbs_data_mutex in
that function any more.
Reported-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Reported-by: Shilpasri G Bhat <shilpa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
[ rjw: Subject & changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.h b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.h
index 0eb66a6..8bf4775 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.h
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.h
@@ -73,7 +73,11 @@
unsigned int up_threshold;
struct kobject kobj;
- /* Protect concurrent updates to governor tunables from sysfs */
+ struct list_head policy_dbs_list;
+ /*
+ * Protect concurrent updates to governor tunables from sysfs,
+ * policy_dbs_list and usage_count.
+ */
struct mutex mutex;
};
@@ -125,6 +129,7 @@
struct work_struct work;
/* dbs_data may be shared between multiple policy objects */
struct dbs_data *dbs_data;
+ struct list_head list;
};
static inline void gov_update_sample_delay(struct policy_dbs_info *policy_dbs,