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Message-ID: <20080805175224.GA1745@debian>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 23:22:25 +0530
From: Rabin Vincent <rabin@....in>
To: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@....de>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, shaohua.li@...el.com
Subject: Re: BUG when doing a cat
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/current_driver
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 02:33:56PM +0200, Eric Sesterhenn wrote:
> > issuing a
> >
> > cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/current_driver
> >
[trim first oops, same issue]
> > gives me the following oops on current -git,
> > [ 4089.268648] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 7898b450
> > [ 4089.268965] IP: [<c0678bd3>] show_current_driver+0x3/0x70
> > [ 4089.269175] *pde = 00000000
> > [ 4089.269370] Oops: 0000 [#1] DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
> > [ 4089.269579] Modules linked in: [last unloaded: rcutorture]
> > [ 4089.269875]
> > [ 4089.269975] Pid: 13168, comm: cat Not tainted (2.6.27-rc1 #24)
> > [ 4089.270106] EIP: 0060:[<c0678bd3>] EFLAGS: 00010282 CPU: 0
> > [ 4089.270295] EIP is at show_current_driver+0x3/0x70
> > [ 4089.270425] EAX: c0b74da0 EBX: cc8c9000 ECX: c0678bd0 EDX: cc8c9000
> > [ 4089.270559] ESI: c0b74de2 EDI: cf844cc8 EBP: c99aef3c ESP: c99aef30
> > [ 4089.270692] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
> > [ 4089.270877] Process cat (pid: 13168, ti=c99ae000 task=ca52d420 task.ti=c99ae000)
> > [ 4089.271020] Stack: c0563d49 c9a48978 c0b74a20 c99aef6c c01e1cd1 c042cdd4 c99aef6c 00001000
> > [ 4089.271746] 092b7000 c9a4898c c0b74a20 c0b74ddc c8456550 092b7000 00001000 c99aef90
> > [ 4089.272528] c0197b09 c99aef9c 00000002 00000000 c01e1c50 c8456550 fffffff7 092b7000
> > [ 4089.273252] Call Trace:
> > [ 4089.273487] [<c0563d49>] ? sysdev_class_show+0x29/0x40
> > [ 4089.273795] [<c01e1cd1>] ? sysfs_read_file+0x81/0x110
> > [ 4089.274039] [<c042cdd4>] ? security_file_permission+0x14/0x20
> > [ 4089.274346] [<c0197b09>] ? vfs_read+0x99/0x160
> > [ 4089.274635] [<c01e1c50>] ? sysfs_read_file+0x0/0x110
> > [ 4089.274927] [<c01980e2>] ? sys_read+0x42/0x70
> > [ 4089.275156] [<c0103059>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x31
> > [ 4089.275452] [<c019e074>] ? __free_pipe_info+0x44/0x50
> > [ 4089.275750] =======================
> > [ 4089.275860] Code: 00 00 8d bf 00 00 00 00 55 89 e5 e8 ac b0 a8 ff ba a4 35 b8 c0 83 c0 3c e8 db b4 b6 ff 5d c3 89 f6 8d bc 27 00 00 00 00 6e 6f 6e <65> 0a 00 0c 0f 1f 44 00 00 b8 68 35 b8 c0 89 cb e8 d8 70 1b 00
> > [ 4089.277001] EIP: [<c0678bd3>] show_current_driver+0x3/0x70 SS:ESP 0068:c99aef30
> > [ 4089.277925] ---[ end trace 463e756b5a7abbdb ]---
The problem is that the sysfs attributes are incorrectly declared. The
patch below should fix it:
diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/sysfs.c b/drivers/cpuidle/sysfs.c
index 31a0e0b..97b0038 100644
--- a/drivers/cpuidle/sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/sysfs.c
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ static int __init cpuidle_sysfs_setup(char *unused)
}
__setup("cpuidle_sysfs_switch", cpuidle_sysfs_setup);
-static ssize_t show_available_governors(struct sys_device *dev,
- struct sysdev_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+static ssize_t show_available_governors(struct sysdev_class *class,
+ char *buf)
{
ssize_t i = 0;
struct cpuidle_governor *tmp;
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ out:
return i;
}
-static ssize_t show_current_driver(struct sys_device *dev,
- struct sysdev_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+static ssize_t show_current_driver(struct sysdev_class *class,
+ char *buf)
{
ssize_t ret;
@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ static ssize_t show_current_driver(struct sys_device *dev,
return ret;
}
-static ssize_t show_current_governor(struct sys_device *dev,
- struct sysdev_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+static ssize_t show_current_governor(struct sysdev_class *class,
+ char *buf)
{
ssize_t ret;
@@ -70,9 +70,8 @@ static ssize_t show_current_governor(struct sys_device *dev,
return ret;
}
-static ssize_t store_current_governor(struct sys_device *dev,
- struct sysdev_attribute *attr,
- const char *buf, size_t count)
+static ssize_t store_current_governor(struct sysdev_class *class,
+ const char *buf, size_t count)
{
char gov_name[CPUIDLE_NAME_LEN];
int ret = -EINVAL;
@@ -104,8 +103,9 @@ static ssize_t store_current_governor(struct sys_device *dev,
return count;
}
-static SYSDEV_ATTR(current_driver, 0444, show_current_driver, NULL);
-static SYSDEV_ATTR(current_governor_ro, 0444, show_current_governor, NULL);
+static SYSDEV_CLASS_ATTR(current_driver, 0444, show_current_driver, NULL);
+static SYSDEV_CLASS_ATTR(current_governor_ro, 0444, show_current_governor,
+ NULL);
static struct attribute *cpuclass_default_attrs[] = {
&attr_current_driver.attr,
@@ -113,9 +113,10 @@ static struct attribute *cpuclass_default_attrs[] = {
NULL
};
-static SYSDEV_ATTR(available_governors, 0444, show_available_governors, NULL);
-static SYSDEV_ATTR(current_governor, 0644, show_current_governor,
- store_current_governor);
+static SYSDEV_CLASS_ATTR(available_governors, 0444, show_available_governors,
+ NULL);
+static SYSDEV_CLASS_ATTR(current_governor, 0644, show_current_governor,
+ store_current_governor);
static struct attribute *cpuclass_switch_attrs[] = {
&attr_available_governors.attr,
--
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