linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] cpuidle: Fail cpuidle device registration if there is one already

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Message-ID: <12749587.O9o76ZdvQC@rafael.j.wysocki>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 13:22:20 +0200
From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To: Linux PM <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>, Dhruva Gole <d-gole@...com>
Subject:
 [PATCH v2] cpuidle: Fail cpuidle device registration if there is one already

From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>

Refuse to register a cpuidle device if the given CPU has a cpuidle
device already and print a message regarding it.

Without this, an attempt to register a new cpuidle device without
unregistering the existing one leads to the removal of the existing
cpuidle device without removing its sysfs interface.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
---

v1 -> v2:
   * Add the new check before the driver module reference counting (Dhruva).

---
 drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
@@ -635,8 +635,14 @@ static void __cpuidle_device_init(struct
 static int __cpuidle_register_device(struct cpuidle_device *dev)
 {
 	struct cpuidle_driver *drv = cpuidle_get_cpu_driver(dev);
+	unsigned int cpu = dev->cpu;
 	int i, ret;

+	if (per_cpu(cpuidle_devices, cpu)) {
+		pr_info("CPU%d: cpuidle device already registered\n", cpu);
+		return -EEXIST;
+	}
+
 	if (!try_module_get(drv->owner))
 		return -EINVAL;

@@ -648,7 +654,7 @@ static int __cpuidle_register_device(str
 			dev->states_usage[i].disable |= CPUIDLE_STATE_DISABLED_BY_USER;
 	}

-	per_cpu(cpuidle_devices, dev->cpu) = dev;
+	per_cpu(cpuidle_devices, cpu) = dev;
 	list_add(&dev->device_list, &cpuidle_detected_devices);

 	ret = cpuidle_coupled_register_device(dev);