[PATCH 76/88] Fix memory leak in cpufreq stats.

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu Mar 14 10:36:09 UTC 2013


3.5.7.8 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: "Tu, Xiaobing" <xiaobing.tu at intel.com>

commit e37736777254ce1abc85493a5cacbefe5983b896 upstream.

When system enters sleep, non-boot CPUs will be disabled.
Cpufreq stats sysfs is created when the CPU is up, but it is not
freed when the CPU is going down. This will cause memory leak.

Signed-off-by: xiaobing tu <xiaobing.tu at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: guifang tang <guifang.tang at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_stats.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_stats.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_stats.c
index b40ee14..3998316 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_stats.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_stats.c
@@ -328,6 +328,7 @@ static int __cpuinit cpufreq_stat_cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb,
 		cpufreq_update_policy(cpu);
 		break;
 	case CPU_DOWN_PREPARE:
+	case CPU_DOWN_PREPARE_FROZEN:
 		cpufreq_stats_free_sysfs(cpu);
 		break;
 	case CPU_DEAD:
-- 
1.8.1.2





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