Re: [PATCH] x86/powernow: fix cpus_allowed brokage when acpi=off

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Thu Jan 29 2009 - 20:41:12 EST


On Thursday 29 January 2009 15:26:28 Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
> Impact: fix current->cpus_allowed overwriting.
...
> caused by
> | commit 2fdf66b491ac706657946442789ec644cc317e1a
> | Author: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> | Date: Wed Dec 31 18:08:47 2008 -0800
> |
> | cpumask: convert shared_cpu_map in acpi_processor* structs to cpumask_var_t

Hi Yinghai!

Indeed; Mike, that contained a bad conversion of
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c.

This patch reverts the bad change (this code should still be converted
to work_on_cpu of course, but that's a bigger change).

Yinghai, as far as I can tell your other fixes are independent (and
were a problem before this commit, yes?). Can you re-submit them on top
of this patch (which is for Ingo, but against latest Linus).

Subject: cpumask: fix powernow-k8: partial revert of 2fdf66b491ac706657946442789ec644cc317e1a

Impact: fix powernow-k8 when acpi=off (or other error).

There was a spurious change introduced into powernow-k8 in this patch:
the cause if that we try to "restore" the cpus_allowed we never saved.

See lkml "[PATCH] x86/powernow: fix cpus_allowed brokage when
acpi=off" from Yinghai for the bug report.

Cc: Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
@@ -1142,8 +1142,7 @@ static int __cpuinit powernowk8_cpu_init
data->cpu = pol->cpu;
data->currpstate = HW_PSTATE_INVALID;

- rc = powernow_k8_cpu_init_acpi(data);
- if (rc) {
+ if (powernow_k8_cpu_init_acpi(data)) {
/*
* Use the PSB BIOS structure. This is only availabe on
* an UP version, and is deprecated by AMD.
@@ -1161,17 +1160,20 @@ static int __cpuinit powernowk8_cpu_init
"ACPI maintainers and complain to your BIOS "
"vendor.\n");
#endif
- goto err_out;
+ kfree(data);
+ return -ENODEV;
}
if (pol->cpu != 0) {
printk(KERN_ERR FW_BUG PFX "No ACPI _PSS objects for "
"CPU other than CPU0. Complain to your BIOS "
"vendor.\n");
- goto err_out;
+ kfree(data);
+ return -ENODEV;
}
rc = find_psb_table(data);
if (rc) {
- goto err_out;
+ kfree(data);
+ return -ENODEV;
}
}

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