From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: x86@kernel.org, cpufreq@vger.kernel.org, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Missing "unregister_cpu_notifier" in powernow-k8.c
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:28:01 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101124112801.78830fba@notabene.brown> (raw)
Hi,
(hope I got the right addressees above....)
I appears that when powernow-k8 find that
No compatible ACPI _PSS objects found.
and suggests
Try again with latest BIOS.
it fails the module load, but does not unregister the cpu_notifier that was
registered in powernowk8_init
This ends up leaving freed memory on the cpu notifier list for some other
poor module (e.g. md/raid5) to come along and trip over.
The following might be a partial fix, but I suspect there is probably other
clean-up that is needed.
( https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=655215 has full dmesg traces).
Thanks,
NeilBrown
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
index 491977b..812778c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
@@ -1537,6 +1537,7 @@ static struct notifier_block cpb_nb = {
static int __cpuinit powernowk8_init(void)
{
unsigned int i, supported_cpus = 0, cpu;
+ int rv;
for_each_online_cpu(i) {
int rc;
@@ -1574,7 +1575,10 @@ static int __cpuinit powernowk8_init(void)
(cpb_enabled ? "on" : "off"));
}
- return cpufreq_register_driver(&cpufreq_amd64_driver);
+ rv = cpufreq_register_driver(&cpufreq_amd64_driver);
+ if (rv < 0 && boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CPB))
+ unregister_cpu_notifier(&cpb_nb);
+ return rv;
}
/* driver entry point for term */
next reply other threads:[~2010-11-24 0:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-24 0:28 Neil Brown [this message]
2010-11-24 2:19 ` Dave Jones
2010-11-24 2:31 ` Dave Jones
2010-11-24 9:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2010-11-24 13:13 ` Borislav Petkov
2010-11-24 13:19 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86, powernow-k8: Fixup missing _PSS objects message Borislav Petkov
2010-11-24 13:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86, powernow-k8: Fix exit path Borislav Petkov
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