[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "cpufreq: powernow-k8: Initialize per-cpu data-structures properly" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    cpufreq: powernow-k8: Initialize per-cpu data-structures properly

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.20.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From ec121a4153414e67f750e313bde511021c9b5b5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:18:21 +0530
Subject: cpufreq: powernow-k8: Initialize per-cpu data-structures properly

commit c3274763bfc3bf1ececa269ed6e6c4d7ec1c3e5e upstream.

The powernow-k8 driver maintains a per-cpu data-structure called
powernow_data that is used to perform the frequency transitions.
It initializes this data structure only for the policy->cpu. So,
accesses to this data structure by other CPUs results in various
problems because they would have been uninitialized.

Specifically, if a cpu (!= policy->cpu) invokes the drivers' ->get()
function, it returns 0 as the KHz value, since its per-cpu memory
doesn't point to anything valid. This causes problems during
suspend/resume since cpufreq_update_policy() tries to enforce this
(0 KHz) as the current frequency of the CPU, and this madness gets
propagated to adjust_jiffies() as well. Eventually, lots of things
start breaking down, including the r8169 ethernet card, in one
particularly interesting case reported by Pierre Ossman.

Fix this by initializing the per-cpu data-structures of all the CPUs
in the policy appropriately.

References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70311
Reported-by: Pierre Ossman <pierre at ossman.eu>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c b/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
index 056faf6..69bf037 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
@@ -1102,7 +1102,7 @@ static int __cpuinit powernowk8_cpu_init(struct cpufreq_policy *pol)
 {
 	struct powernow_k8_data *data;
 	struct init_on_cpu init_on_cpu;
-	int rc;
+	int rc, cpu;

 	if (!cpu_online(pol->cpu))
 		return -ENODEV;
@@ -1174,7 +1174,9 @@ static int __cpuinit powernowk8_cpu_init(struct cpufreq_policy *pol)
 	pr_debug("cpu_init done, current fid 0x%x, vid 0x%x\n",
 		 data->currfid, data->currvid);

-	per_cpu(powernow_data, pol->cpu) = data;
+	/* Point all the CPUs in this policy to the same data */
+	for_each_cpu(cpu, pol->cpus)
+		per_cpu(powernow_data, cpu) = data;

 	return 0;

@@ -1189,6 +1191,7 @@ err_out:
 static int powernowk8_cpu_exit(struct cpufreq_policy *pol)
 {
 	struct powernow_k8_data *data = per_cpu(powernow_data, pol->cpu);
+	int cpu;

 	if (!data)
 		return -EINVAL;
@@ -1199,7 +1202,8 @@ static int powernowk8_cpu_exit(struct cpufreq_policy *pol)

 	kfree(data->powernow_table);
 	kfree(data);
-	per_cpu(powernow_data, pol->cpu) = NULL;
+	for_each_cpu(cpu, pol->cpus)
+		per_cpu(powernow_data, cpu) = NULL;

 	return 0;
 }
--
1.8.3.2