* Rafael J. Wysocki (rjw@sisk.pl) wrote:
> This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report
> of regressions introduced between 2.6.28 and 2.6.29.
>
> The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
> introduced between 2.6.28 and 2.6.29. Please verify if it still should
> be listed and let me know (either way).
>
>
> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13186
> Subject : cpufreq timer teardown problem
> Submitter : Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
> Date : 2009-04-23 14:00 (24 days old)
> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124049523515036&w=4
> Handled-By : Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
> Patch : http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/19754/
> http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/19753/
>
(updated changelog)
cpufreq fix timer teardown in ondemand governor
The problem is that dbs_timer_exit() uses cancel_delayed_work() when it should
use cancel_delayed_work_sync(). cancel_delayed_work() does not wait for the
workqueue handler to exit.
The ondemand governor does not seem to be affected because the
"if (!dbs_info->enable)" check at the beginning of the workqueue handler returns
immediately without rescheduling the work. The conservative governor in
2.6.30-rc has the same check as the ondemand governor, which makes things
usually run smoothly. However, if the governor is quickly stopped and then
started, this could lead to the following race :
dbs_enable could be reenabled and multiple do_dbs_timer handlers would run.
This is why a synchronized teardown is required.
The following patch applies to, at least, 2.6.28.x, 2.6.29.1, 2.6.30-rc2.
Depends on patch
cpufreq: remove rwsem lock from CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP call
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
CC: gregkh@suse.de
CC: stable@kernel.org
CC: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: rjw@sisk.pl
CC: Ben Slusky <sluskyb@paranoiacs.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
* Rafael J. Wysocki (rjw@sisk.pl) wrote:
> This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report
> of regressions introduced between 2.6.28 and 2.6.29.
>
> The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
> introduced between 2.6.28 and 2.6.29. Please verify if it still should
> be listed and let me know (either way).
>
>
> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13186
> Subject : cpufreq timer teardown problem
> Submitter : Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
> Date : 2009-04-23 14:00 (24 days old)
> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124049523515036&w=4
> Handled-By : Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
> Patch : http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/19754/
> http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/19753/
>
(re-send with updated changelog)
cpufreq fix timer teardown in conservative governor
The problem is that dbs_timer_exit() uses cancel_delayed_work() when it should
use cancel_delayed_work_sync(). cancel_delayed_work() does not wait for the
workqueue handler to exit.
The ondemand governor does not seem to be affected because the
"if (!dbs_info->enable)" check at the beginning of the workqueue handler returns
immediately without rescheduling the work. The conservative governor in
2.6.30-rc has the same check as the ondemand governor, which makes things
usually run smoothly. However, if the governor is quickly stopped and then
started, this could lead to the following race :
dbs_enable could be reenabled and multiple do_dbs_timer handlers would run.
This is why a synchronized teardown is required.
Depends on patch
cpufreq: remove rwsem lock from CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP call
The following patch applies to 2.6.30-rc2. Stable kernels have a similar
issue which should also be fixed, but the code changed between 2.6.29
and 2.6.30, so this patch only applies to 2.6.30-rc.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
CC: gregkh@suse.de
CC: stable@kernel.org
CC: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: rjw@sisk.pl
CC: Ben Slusky <sluskyb@paranoiacs.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
* Rafael J. Wysocki (rjw@sisk.pl) wrote:
> This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report
> of regressions introduced between 2.6.28 and 2.6.29.
>
> The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
> introduced between 2.6.28 and 2.6.29. Please verify if it still should
> be listed and let me know (either way).
>
>
> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13186
> Subject : cpufreq timer teardown problem
> Submitter : Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
> Date : 2009-04-23 14:00 (24 days old)
> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124049523515036&w=4
> Handled-By : Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
> Patch : http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/19754/
> http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/19753/
The patches linked above depend on the following patch to remove
circular locking dependency :
cpufreq: remove rwsem lock from CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP call
(the following issue was faced when using cancel_delayed_work_sync() in the
timer teardown (which fixes a race).
* KOSAKI Motohiro (kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com) wrote:
> Hi
>
> my box output following warnings.
> it seems regression by commit 7ccc7608b836e58fbacf65ee4f8eefa288e86fac.
>
> A: work -> do_dbs_timer() -> cpu_policy_rwsem
> B: store() -> cpu_policy_rwsem -> cpufreq_governor_dbs() -> work
>
>
Hrm, I think it must be due to my attempt to fix the timer teardown race
in ondemand governor mixed with new locking behavior in 2.6.30-rc.
The rwlock seems to be taken around the whole call to
cpufreq_governor_dbs(), when it should be only taken around accesses to
the locked data, and especially *not* around the call to
dbs_timer_exit().
Reverting my fix attempt would put the teardown race back in place
(replacing the cancel_delayed_work_sync by cancel_delayed_work).
Instead, a proper fix would imply modifying this critical section :
cpufreq.c: __cpufreq_remove_dev()
...
if (cpufreq_driver->target)
__cpufreq_governor(data, CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP);
unlock_policy_rwsem_write(cpu);
To make sure the __cpufreq_governor() callback is not called with rwsem
held. This would allow execution of cancel_delayed_work_sync() without
being nested within the rwsem.
Applies on top of the 2.6.30-rc5 tree.
Required to remove circular dep in teardown of both conservative and
ondemande governors so they can use cancel_delayed_work_sync().
CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP does not modify the policy, therefore this locking seemed
unneeded.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
CC: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
CC: Ben Slusky <sluskyb@paranoiacs.org>
CC: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq: (35 commits)
[CPUFREQ] Prevent p4-clockmod from auto-binding to the ondemand governor.
[CPUFREQ] Make cpufreq-nforce2 less obnoxious
[CPUFREQ] p4-clockmod reports wrong frequency.
[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Use a common exit path.
[CPUFREQ] Change link order of x86 cpufreq modules
[CPUFREQ] conservative: remove 10x from def_sampling_rate
[CPUFREQ] conservative: fixup governor to function more like ondemand logic
[CPUFREQ] conservative: fix dbs_cpufreq_notifier so freq is not locked
[CPUFREQ] conservative: amend author's email address
[CPUFREQ] Use swap() in longhaul.c
[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for acpi-cpufreq
[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Only print error message once, not per core.
[CPUFREQ] ondemand/conservative: sanitize sampling_rate restrictions
[CPUFREQ] ondemand/conservative: deprecate sampling_rate{min,max}
[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Always compile powernow-k8 driver with ACPI support
[CPUFREQ] Introduce /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/cpuinfo_transition_latency
[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for powernow-k8
[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for ondemand governor.
[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for powernow-k7
[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for speedstep related drivers.
...
This reverts commit e088e4c9cd.
Removing the sysfs interface for p4-clockmod was flagged as a
regression in bug 12826.
Course of action:
- Find out the remaining causes of overheating, and fix them
if possible. ACPI should be doing the right thing automatically.
If it isn't, we need to fix that.
- mark p4-clockmod ui as deprecated
- try again with the removal in six months.
It's not really feasible to printk about the deprecation, because
it needs to happen at all the sysfs entry points, which means adding
a lot of strcmp("p4-clockmod".. calls to the core, which.. bleuch.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
AMD users get particular hit by this issue (bug 8081) as it caps at
typically 90 seconds as the minimum period for a frequency change.
Harsh eh? Years ago I borked this buy puting the 10x in the wrong
place...I fix that by removing it altogether.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
As conservative is based off ondemand the codebases occasionally need to be
resync'd. This patch, although ugly, does this.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
When someone added the dbs_cpufreq_notifier section to the governor the
code ended up causing the frequency to only fall. This is because
requested_freq is tinkered with and that should only modified if it has
an invlaid value due to changes in the available frequency ranges
This should fix#10055.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Limit sampling rate to transition_latency * 100 or kernel limits.
If sampling_rate is tried to be set too low, set the lowest allowed value.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
The same info can be obtained via the transition_latency sysfs file
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
It's not only useful for the ondemand and conservative governors, but
also for userspace daemons to know about the HW transition latency of
the CPU.
It is especially useful for userspace to know about this value when
the ondemand or conservative governors are run. The sampling rate
control value depends on it and for userspace being able to set sane
tuning values there it has to know about the transition latency.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
* 'cpus4096-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
[IA64] fix typo in cpumask_of_pcibus()
x86: fix x86_32 builds for summit and es7000 arch's
cpumask: use work_on_cpu in acpi-cpufreq.c for read_measured_perf_ctrs
cpumask: use work_on_cpu in acpi-cpufreq.c for drv_read and drv_write
cpumask: use cpumask_var_t in acpi-cpufreq.c
cpumask: use work_on_cpu in acpi/cstate.c
cpumask: convert struct cpufreq_policy to cpumask_var_t
cpumask: replace CPUMASK_ALLOC etc with cpumask_var_t
x86: cleanup remaining cpumask_t ops in smpboot code
cpumask: update pci_bus_show_cpuaffinity to use new cpumask API
cpumask: update local_cpus_show to use new cpumask API
ia64: cpumask fix for is_affinity_mask_valid()
It is always "an" if there is a vowel _spoken_ (not written).
So it is:
"an hour" (spoken vowel)
but
"a uniform" (spoken 'j')
Signed-off-by: Frederik Schwarzer <schwarzerf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Impact: use new cpumask API to reduce memory usage
This is part of an effort to reduce structure sizes for machines
configured with large NR_CPUS. cpumask_t gets replaced by
cpumask_var_t, which is either struct cpumask[1] (small NR_CPUS) or
struct cpumask * (large NR_CPUS).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Previously driver resume would always set the current policy min/max with
the cpuinfo min/max, defined by user_policy.min/max. Resulting in a reset
of policy settings when policy.min/max != cpuinfo.min/max when coming out
of suspend. Now user_policy is saved as the policy instead of cpuinfo to
preserve what the user actually set.
Signed-off-by: Mike Chan <mike@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
p4-clockmod has a long history of abuse. It pretends to be a CPU
frequency scaling driver, even though it doesn't actually change
the CPU frequency, but instead just modulates the frequency with
wait-states.
The biggest misconception is that when running at the lower 'frequency'
p4-clockmod is saving power. This isn't the case, as workloads running
slower take longer to complete, preventing the CPU from entering deep C states.
However p4-clockmod does have a purpose. It can prevent overheating.
Having it hooked up to the cpufreq interfaces is the wrong way to achieve
cooling however. It should instead be hooked up to ACPI.
This diff introduces a means for a cpufreq driver to register with the
cpufreq core, but not present a sysfs interface.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
