linux-kernel - [PATCH] Bug fix for acpi-cpufreq and cpufreq_stats oops on frequency change notification

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Date:	Sat, 18 Nov 2006 14:16:12 -0800
From:	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Bug fix for acpi-cpufreq and cpufreq_stats oops on frequency change notification


Fixes the oops in cpufreq_stats with acpi_cpufreq driver.
The issue was that the frequency was reported as 0 in acpi-cpufreq.c.
The bug is due to different indicies for freq_table and ACPI perf table.

Also adds a check in cpufreq_stats to check for error return from
freq_table_get_index() and avoid using the error return value.

Patch fixes the issue reported at
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0611.2/0629.html
and also other similar issue here
http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7383 comment 53

Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>

Index: linux-2.6.19-rc-mm/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_stats.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.19-rc-mm.orig/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_stats.c
+++ linux-2.6.19-rc-mm/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_stats.c
@@ -285,6 +285,7 @@ cpufreq_stat_notifier_trans (struct noti
 	stat = cpufreq_stats_table[freq->cpu];
 	if (!stat)
 		return 0;
+
 	old_index = freq_table_get_index(stat, freq->old);
 	new_index = freq_table_get_index(stat, freq->new);
 
@@ -292,6 +293,9 @@ cpufreq_stat_notifier_trans (struct noti
 	if (old_index == new_index)
 		return 0;
 
+	if (old_index == -1 || new_index == -1)
+		return 0;
+
 	spin_lock(&cpufreq_stats_lock);
 	stat->last_index = new_index;
 #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT_DETAILS
Index: linux-2.6.19-rc-mm/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.19-rc-mm.orig/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
+++ linux-2.6.19-rc-mm/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
@@ -390,8 +390,8 @@ static int acpi_cpufreq_target(struct cp
 	cpumask_t online_policy_cpus;
 	struct drv_cmd cmd;
 	unsigned int msr;
-	unsigned int next_state = 0;
-	unsigned int next_perf_state = 0;
+	unsigned int next_state = 0; /* Index into freq_table */
+	unsigned int next_perf_state = 0; /* Index into perf table */
 	unsigned int i;
 	int result = 0;
 
@@ -456,8 +456,8 @@ static int acpi_cpufreq_target(struct cp
 	else
 		cpu_set(policy->cpu, cmd.mask);
 
-	freqs.old = data->freq_table[perf->state].frequency;
-	freqs.new = data->freq_table[next_perf_state].frequency;
+	freqs.old = perf->states[perf->state].core_frequency * 1000;
+	freqs.new = data->freq_table[next_state].frequency;
 	for_each_cpu_mask(i, cmd.mask) {
 		freqs.cpu = i;
 		cpufreq_notify_transition(&freqs, CPUFREQ_PRECHANGE);
@@ -694,6 +694,7 @@ static int acpi_cpufreq_cpu_init(struct 
 		valid_states++;
 	}
 	data->freq_table[valid_states].frequency = CPUFREQ_TABLE_END;
+	perf->state = 0;
 
 	result = cpufreq_frequency_table_cpuinfo(policy, data->freq_table);
 	if (result)
-
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