linux-kernel - [PATCH] cpufreq: Register cpufreq drivers only after CPU devices are registered

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Date:   Thu, 14 Nov 2019 09:06:17 +0530
From:   Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:     Rafael Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Cc:     linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@...aro.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] cpufreq: Register cpufreq drivers only after CPU devices are registered

The cpufreq core heavily depends on the availability of the struct
device for CPUs and if they aren't available at the time cpufreq driver
is registered, we will never succeed in making cpufreq work.

This happens due to following sequence of events:

- cpufreq_register_driver()
  - subsys_interface_register()
  - return 0; //successful registration of driver

... at a later point of time

- register_cpu();
  - device_register();
    - bus_probe_device();
      - sif->add_dev();
	- cpufreq_add_dev();
	  - get_cpu_device(); //FAILS
  - per_cpu(cpu_sys_devices, num) = &cpu->dev; //used by get_cpu_device()
  - return 0; //CPU registered successfully

Because the per-cpu variable cpu_sys_devices is set only after the CPU
device is regsitered, cpufreq will never be able to get it when
cpufreq_add_dev() is called.

This patch avoids this failure by making sure device structure of at
least CPU0 is available when the cpufreq driver is registered, else
return -EPROBE_DEFER.

Reported-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>
Signed-off-by: Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@...aro.org>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
---
@Amit: I have added your sob without asking as you were involved in
getting us to this patch, you did a lot of testing yesterday to find the
root cause.

@Rafael: This fixes the issues reported by Bjorn on Amit's series and so
should land before Amit's series, if at all this is acceptable to you.
Thanks.

 drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
index 681c1b5f0a1a..05293b43e56d 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
@@ -2641,6 +2641,13 @@ int cpufreq_register_driver(struct cpufreq_driver *driver_data)
 	if (cpufreq_disabled())
 		return -ENODEV;
 
+	/*
+	 * The cpufreq core depends heavily on the availability of device
+	 * structure, make sure they are available before proceeding further.
+	 */
+	if (!get_cpu_device(0))
+		return -EPROBE_DEFER;
+
 	if (!driver_data || !driver_data->verify || !driver_data->init ||
 	    !(driver_data->setpolicy || driver_data->target_index ||
 		    driver_data->target) ||
-- 
2.21.0.rc0.269.g1a574e7a288b