linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] riscv: Prevent a bad reference count on CPU nodes

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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 16:30:34 +0000
From: patchwork-bot+linux-riscv@...nel.org
To: Miquel Sabaté Solà <mikisabate@...il.com>@codeaurora.org
Cc: linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, paul.walmsley@...ive.com,
 aou@...s.berkeley.edu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jeremy.linton@....com,
 palmer@...belt.com, cuiyunhui@...edance.com, sudeep.holla@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscv: Prevent a bad reference count on CPU nodes

Hello:

This patch was applied to riscv/linux.git (fixes)
by Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...osinc.com>:

On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 10:00:52 +0200 you wrote:
> When populating cache leaves we previously fetched the CPU device node
> at the very beginning. But when ACPI is enabled we go through a
> specific branch which returns early and does not call 'of_node_put' for
> the node that was acquired.
> 
> Since we are not using a CPU device node for the ACPI code anyways, we
> can simply move the initialization of it just passed the ACPI block, and
> we are guaranteed to have an 'of_node_put' call for the acquired node.
> This prevents a bad reference count of the CPU device node.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - riscv: Prevent a bad reference count on CPU nodes
    https://git.kernel.org/riscv/c/9510c5b0db36

You are awesome, thank you!
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