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Message-ID: <20071115225604.GA6395@linux.intel.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:56:04 -0800
From: mark gross <mgross@...ux.intel.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@...glemail.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc2-mm1
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 11:19:50AM -0800, mark gross wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:40:08PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:29:59 -0800 mark gross <mgross@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > > [ 102.366932] =======================
> > > > > [ 108.552031] printk: 31 messages suppressed.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > All this BUG / WARNINGS are caused by *-qos* patches. Reverting this 3 patches makes the BUGs go away :
> > > >
> > > > latencyc-use-qos-infrastructure.patch
> > > > pm-qos-infrastructure-and-interface.patch
> > > > pm-qos-infrastructure-and-interface-static-initialization-with-blocking-notifiers.patch
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Gabriel
> > > >
> > > >
> > > This looks like the same issue Rafael saw.
> > >
> > > Try the patch in the following post:
> > >
> > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119265627228498&w=2
> > >
> >
> > Well that's not very good. _I_ can go fishing in my lkml archives for random
> > patches but not everyone is set up to do that. And the diff to which you
> > refer gets 100% rejects against rc2-mm1 anyway.
> >
> > Please prepare a tested, changelogged patch against rc2-mm1 asap.
>
> I'm having difficulty coming up with a .config that boots, I'll continue
> working on this but the following is what I'm pretty confident will fix
> the warnings.
>
> You should hold off until I get a system booting 2.6.24-rc2-mm1 before
> taking this.
I'm able to boot and have done a bit of testing and this patch wasn't
good enough. I'm sending a new one in a min.
--mgross
>
> pm-qos-remove-locks-around-blocking-notifier-registration.patch
>
> Changelog:
> Remove spin locking around blocking notifier calls that can sleep.
>
> --mgross
>
> Signed-off-by: mark gross <mgross@...ux.intel.com>
>
>
>
>
> Index: linux-2.6.24-rc2-mm1/kernel/pm_qos_params.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.24-rc2-mm1.orig/kernel/pm_qos_params.c 2007-11-15 11:09:27.000000000 -0800
> +++ linux-2.6.24-rc2-mm1/kernel/pm_qos_params.c 2007-11-15 11:10:08.000000000 -0800
> @@ -319,13 +319,10 @@
> */
> int pm_qos_add_notifier(int pm_qos_class, struct notifier_block *notifier)
> {
> - unsigned long flags;
> int retval;
>
> - spin_lock_irqsave(&pm_qos_lock, flags);
> retval = blocking_notifier_chain_register(
> pm_qos_array[pm_qos_class]->notifiers, notifier);
> - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pm_qos_lock, flags);
>
> return retval;
> }
> @@ -341,13 +338,10 @@
> */
> int pm_qos_remove_notifier(int pm_qos_class, struct notifier_block *notifier)
> {
> - unsigned long flags;
> int retval;
>
> - spin_lock_irqsave(&pm_qos_lock, flags);
> retval = blocking_notifier_chain_unregister(
> pm_qos_array[pm_qos_class]->notifiers, notifier);
> - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pm_qos_lock, flags);
>
> return retval;
> }
> -
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