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Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 08:42:27 -0700
From: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>
To: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>,
linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] thermal/powerclamp: Prevent division by zero when
counting interval
On Fri, 5 Aug 2016 15:20:41 +0200
Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com> wrote:
> I have got a zero division error when disabling the forced
> idle injection from the intel powerclamp. I did
>
> echo 0 >/sys/class/thermal/cooling_device48/cur_state
>
> and got
>
> [ 986.072632] divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> [ 986.078989] Modules linked in:
> [ 986.083618] CPU: 17 PID: 24967 Comm: kidle_inject/17 Not tainted
> 4.7.0-1-default+ #3055 [ 986.093781] Hardware name: Intel
> Corporation S2600CP/S2600CP, BIOS RMLSDP.86I.R3.27.D685.1305151734
> 05/15/2013 [ 986.106227] task: ffff880430e1c080 task.stack:
> ffff880427ef0000 [ 986.114122] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81794859>]
> [<ffffffff81794859>] clamp_thread+0x1d9/0x600 [ 986.124609] RSP:
> 0018:ffff880427ef3e20 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 986.131860] RAX:
> 0000000000000258 RBX: 0000000000000006 RCX: 0000000000000001
> [ 986.141179] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI:
> 0000000000000018 [ 986.150478] RBP: ffff880427ef3ec8 R08:
> ffff880427ef0000 R09: 0000000000000002 [ 986.159779] R10:
> 0000000000003df2 R11: 0000000000000018 R12: 0000000000000002
> [ 986.169089] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff880427ef0000 R15:
> ffff880427ef0000 [ 986.178388] FS: 0000000000000000(0000)
> GS:ffff880435940000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 986.188785] CS:
> 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 986.196559] CR2:
> 00007f1d0caf0000 CR3: 0000000002006000 CR4: 00000000001406e0
> [ 986.205909] Stack: [ 986.209524] ffff8802be897b00
> ffff880430e1c080 0000000000000011 0000006a35959780 [ 986.219236]
> 0000000000000011 ffff880427ef0008 0000000000000000 ffff8804359503d0
> [ 986.228966] 0000000100029d93 ffffffff81794140 0000000000000000
> ffffffff05000011 [ 986.238686] Call Trace: [ 986.242825]
> [<ffffffff81794140>] ? pkg_state_counter+0x80/0x80 [ 986.250866]
> [<ffffffff81794680>] ? powerclamp_set_cur_state+0x180/0x180
> [ 986.259797] [<ffffffff8111d1a9>] kthread+0xc9/0xe0
> [ 986.266682] [<ffffffff8193d69f>] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40
> [ 986.274142] [<ffffffff8111d0e0>] ?
> kthread_create_on_node+0x180/0x180 [ 986.282869] Code: d1 ea 48 89
> d6 80 3d 6a d0 d4 00 00 ba 64 00 00 00 89 d8 41 0f 45 f5 0f af c2 42
> 8d 14 2e be 31 00 00 00 83 fa 31 0f 42 f2 31 d2 <f7> f6 48 8b 15 9e
> 07 87 00 48 8b 3d 97 07 87 00 48 63 f0 83 e8 [ 986.307806] RIP
> [<ffffffff81794859>] clamp_thread+0x1d9/0x600 [ 986.315871] RSP
> <ffff880427ef3e20>
>
> RIP points to the following lines:
>
> compensation = get_compensation(target_ratio);
> interval = duration_jiffies*100/(target_ratio+compensation);
>
> A solution would be to switch the following two commands in
> powerclamp_set_cur_state():
>
> set_target_ratio = 0;
> end_power_clamp();
>
> But I think that the zero division might happen also when target_ratio
> is non-zero because the compensation might be negative. Therefore
> we also check the sum of target_ratio and compensation explicitly.
>
> Also the compensated_ratio variable is always set. Therefore there
> is no need to initialize it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Acked-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>
Thanks
> ---
> Changes against v1:
>
> + Also set_target_ratio to 0 after the threads are stopped.
>
> drivers/thermal/intel_powerclamp.c | 11 +++++++----
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/intel_powerclamp.c
> b/drivers/thermal/intel_powerclamp.c index 015ce2eb6eb7..0e4dc0afcfd2
> 100644 --- a/drivers/thermal/intel_powerclamp.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/intel_powerclamp.c
> @@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ static int clamp_thread(void *arg)
> int sleeptime;
> unsigned long target_jiffies;
> unsigned int guard;
> - unsigned int compensation = 0;
> + unsigned int compensated_ratio;
> int interval; /* jiffies to sleep for each attempt */
> unsigned int duration_jiffies =
> msecs_to_jiffies(duration); unsigned int window_size_now;
> @@ -409,8 +409,11 @@ static int clamp_thread(void *arg)
> * c-states, thus we need to compensate the injected
> idle ratio
> * to achieve the actual target reported by the HW.
> */
> - compensation = get_compensation(target_ratio);
> - interval =
> duration_jiffies*100/(target_ratio+compensation);
> + compensated_ratio = target_ratio +
> + get_compensation(target_ratio);
> + if (compensated_ratio <= 0)
> + compensated_ratio = 1;
> + interval = duration_jiffies * 100 /
> compensated_ratio;
> /* align idle time */
> target_jiffies = roundup(jiffies, interval);
> @@ -647,8 +650,8 @@ static int powerclamp_set_cur_state(struct
> thermal_cooling_device *cdev, goto exit_set;
> } else if (set_target_ratio > 0 && new_target_ratio
> == 0) { pr_info("Stop forced idle injection\n");
> - set_target_ratio = 0;
> end_power_clamp();
> + set_target_ratio = 0;
> } else /* adjust currently running */ {
> set_target_ratio = new_target_ratio;
> /* make new set_target_ratio visible to other cpus */
[Jacob Pan]
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