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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 21:31:24 -0500 From: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> To: Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, x86@...nel.org, cpufreq@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Missing "unregister_cpu_notifier" in powernow-k8.c On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 09:19:38PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > The following might be a partial fix, but I suspect there is probably other > clean-up that is needed. Indeed, looks like another possible leak in the unlikely event that the percpu msr struct can't be allocated.. Instead of adding an unregister on fail, I think we can just move the registration later. Dave diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c index 812778c..f0a80f1 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c @@ -1556,14 +1556,14 @@ static int __cpuinit powernowk8_init(void) cpb_capable = true; - register_cpu_notifier(&cpb_nb); - msrs = msrs_alloc(); if (!msrs) { printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Error allocating msrs!\n", __func__); return -ENOMEM; } + register_cpu_notifier(&cpb_nb); + rdmsr_on_cpus(cpu_online_mask, MSR_K7_HWCR, msrs); for_each_cpu(cpu, cpu_online_mask) { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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