linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] cpufreq: governor: Implement per policy instances of governors

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Date:	Sun, 10 Feb 2013 22:14:15 +0100
From:	Francesco Lavra <francescolavra.fl@...il.com>
To:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
CC:	rjw@...k.pl, Steve.Bannister@....com, linaro-dev@...ts.linaro.org,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	cpufreq@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] cpufreq: governor: Implement per policy instances
 of governors

Hi,

On 02/04/2013 12:38 PM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> Currently, there can't be multiple instances of single governor_type. If we have
> a multi-package system, where we have multiple instances of struct policy (per
> package), we can't have multiple instances of same governor. i.e. We can't have
> multiple instances of ondemand governor for multiple packages.
> 
> Governors directory in sysfs is created at /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/
> governor-name/. Which again reflects that there can be only one instance of a
> governor_type in the system.
> 
> This is a bottleneck for multicluster system, where we want different packages
> to use same governor type, but with different tunables.
> 
> This patch uses the infrastructure provided by earlier patch and implements
> init/exit routines for ondemand and conservative governors.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
> ---
>  drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c              |   4 -
>  drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c | 142 +++++++++++++----------
>  drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.c     | 138 +++++++++++++---------
>  drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.h     |  42 ++++---
>  drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c     | 205 +++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  include/linux/cpufreq.h                |  19 +--
>  6 files changed, 314 insertions(+), 236 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> index 1ae78d4..7aacfbf 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> @@ -1551,9 +1551,6 @@ static int __cpufreq_governor(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
>  						policy->cpu, event);
>  	ret = policy->governor->governor(policy, event);
>  
> -	if (!policy->governor->initialized && (event == CPUFREQ_GOV_START))
> -		policy->governor->initialized = 1;
> -
>  	/* we keep one module reference alive for
>  			each CPU governed by this CPU */
>  	if ((event != CPUFREQ_GOV_START) || ret)
> @@ -1577,7 +1574,6 @@ int cpufreq_register_governor(struct cpufreq_governor *governor)
>  
>  	mutex_lock(&cpufreq_governor_mutex);
>  
> -	governor->initialized = 0;
>  	err = -EBUSY;
>  	if (__find_governor(governor->name) == NULL) {
>  		err = 0;
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c
[...]
> +static int cs_init(struct dbs_data *dbs_data)
> +{
> +	struct cs_dbs_tuners *tuners;
> +
> +	tuners = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cs_dbs_tuners), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!tuners) {
> +		pr_err("%s: kzalloc failed\n", __func__);
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +	}
> +
> +	tuners->up_threshold = DEF_FREQUENCY_UP_THRESHOLD;
> +	tuners->down_threshold = DEF_FREQUENCY_DOWN_THRESHOLD;
> +	tuners->sampling_down_factor = DEF_SAMPLING_DOWN_FACTOR;
> +	tuners->ignore_nice = 0;
> +	tuners->freq_step = 5;
> +
> +	dbs_data->tuners = tuners;

dbs_data->tuners is never freed, which means there is a memory leak
across CPUFREQ_GOV_POLICY_INIT and CPUFREQ_GOV_POLICY_EXIT events.

The same goes for the ondemand governor.

Regards,
Francesco
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