Re: [PATCH v2] hwmon/coretemp: Simplify platform device handling

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Tue Jan 03 2023 - 16:26:07 EST


On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 12:46:20PM +0100, Janusz Krzysztofik wrote:
> From: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx>
>
> Coretemp's platform driver is unconventional. All the real work is done
> globally by the initcall and CPU hotplug notifiers, while the "driver"
> effectively just wraps an allocation and the registration of the hwmon
> interface in a long-winded round-trip through the driver core. The whole
> logic of dynamically creating and destroying platform devices to bring
> the interfaces up and down is error prone, since it assumes
> platform_device_add() will synchronously bind the driver and set drvdata
> before it returns, thus results in a NULL dereference if drivers_autoprobe
> is turned off for the platform bus. Furthermore, the unusual approach of
> doing that from within a CPU hotplug notifier, already commented in the
> code that it deadlocks suspend, also causes lockdep issues for other
> drivers or subsystems which may want to legitimately register a CPU
> hotplug notifier from a platform bus notifier.
>
> All of these issues can be solved by ripping this unusual behaviour out
> completely, simply tying the platform devices to the lifetime of the
> module itself, and directly managing the hwmon interfaces from the
> hotplug notifiers. There is a slight user-visible change in that
> /sys/bus/platform/drivers/coretemp will no longer appear, and
> /sys/devices/platform/coretemp.n will remain present if package n is
> hotplugged off, but hwmon users should really only be looking for the
> presence of the hwmon interfaces, whose behaviour remains unchanged.
>
> v2: describe the problem in neutral terms
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220922101036.87457-1-janusz.krzysztofik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> Link: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/issues/6641
> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Janusz Krzysztofik <janusz.krzysztofik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to hwmon-next.

Thanks,
Guenter

> ---
> drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c | 128 ++++++++++++++++++---------------------
> 1 file changed, 58 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c b/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c
> index ca7a9b373bbd6..3e440ebe2508c 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c
> @@ -588,66 +588,49 @@ static void coretemp_remove_core(struct platform_data *pdata, int indx)
> ida_free(&pdata->ida, indx - BASE_SYSFS_ATTR_NO);
> }
>
> -static int coretemp_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static int coretemp_device_add(int zoneid)
> {
> - struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
> + struct platform_device *pdev;
> struct platform_data *pdata;
> + int err;
>
> /* Initialize the per-zone data structures */
> - pdata = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(struct platform_data), GFP_KERNEL);
> + pdata = kzalloc(sizeof(*pdata), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!pdata)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> - pdata->pkg_id = pdev->id;
> + pdata->pkg_id = zoneid;
> ida_init(&pdata->ida);
> - platform_set_drvdata(pdev, pdata);
>
> - pdata->hwmon_dev = devm_hwmon_device_register_with_groups(dev, DRVNAME,
> - pdata, NULL);
> - return PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(pdata->hwmon_dev);
> -}
> -
> -static int coretemp_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> -{
> - struct platform_data *pdata = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> - int i;
> + pdev = platform_device_alloc(DRVNAME, zoneid);
> + if (!pdev) {
> + err = -ENOMEM;
> + goto err_free_pdata;
> + }
>
> - for (i = MAX_CORE_DATA - 1; i >= 0; --i)
> - if (pdata->core_data[i])
> - coretemp_remove_core(pdata, i);
> + err = platform_device_add(pdev);
> + if (err)
> + goto err_put_dev;
>
> - ida_destroy(&pdata->ida);
> + platform_set_drvdata(pdev, pdata);
> + zone_devices[zoneid] = pdev;
> return 0;
> -}
>
> -static struct platform_driver coretemp_driver = {
> - .driver = {
> - .name = DRVNAME,
> - },
> - .probe = coretemp_probe,
> - .remove = coretemp_remove,
> -};
> +err_put_dev:
> + platform_device_put(pdev);
> +err_free_pdata:
> + kfree(pdata);
> + return err;
> +}
>
> -static struct platform_device *coretemp_device_add(unsigned int cpu)
> +static void coretemp_device_remove(int zoneid)
> {
> - int err, zoneid = topology_logical_die_id(cpu);
> - struct platform_device *pdev;
> -
> - if (zoneid < 0)
> - return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> -
> - pdev = platform_device_alloc(DRVNAME, zoneid);
> - if (!pdev)
> - return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> -
> - err = platform_device_add(pdev);
> - if (err) {
> - platform_device_put(pdev);
> - return ERR_PTR(err);
> - }
> + struct platform_device *pdev = zone_devices[zoneid];
> + struct platform_data *pdata = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>
> - zone_devices[zoneid] = pdev;
> - return pdev;
> + ida_destroy(&pdata->ida);
> + kfree(pdata);
> + platform_device_unregister(pdev);
> }
>
> static int coretemp_cpu_online(unsigned int cpu)
> @@ -671,7 +654,10 @@ static int coretemp_cpu_online(unsigned int cpu)
> if (!cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_DTHERM))
> return -ENODEV;
>
> - if (!pdev) {
> + pdata = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> + if (!pdata->hwmon_dev) {
> + struct device *hwmon;
> +
> /* Check the microcode version of the CPU */
> if (chk_ucode_version(cpu))
> return -EINVAL;
> @@ -682,9 +668,11 @@ static int coretemp_cpu_online(unsigned int cpu)
> * online. So, initialize per-pkg data structures and
> * then bring this core online.
> */
> - pdev = coretemp_device_add(cpu);
> - if (IS_ERR(pdev))
> - return PTR_ERR(pdev);
> + hwmon = hwmon_device_register_with_groups(&pdev->dev, DRVNAME,
> + pdata, NULL);
> + if (IS_ERR(hwmon))
> + return PTR_ERR(hwmon);
> + pdata->hwmon_dev = hwmon;
>
> /*
> * Check whether pkgtemp support is available.
> @@ -694,7 +682,6 @@ static int coretemp_cpu_online(unsigned int cpu)
> coretemp_add_core(pdev, cpu, 1);
> }
>
> - pdata = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> /*
> * Check whether a thread sibling is already online. If not add the
> * interface for this CPU core.
> @@ -713,18 +700,14 @@ static int coretemp_cpu_offline(unsigned int cpu)
> struct temp_data *tdata;
> int i, indx = -1, target;
>
> - /*
> - * Don't execute this on suspend as the device remove locks
> - * up the machine.
> - */
> + /* No need to tear down any interfaces for suspend */
> if (cpuhp_tasks_frozen)
> return 0;
>
> /* If the physical CPU device does not exist, just return */
> - if (!pdev)
> - return 0;
> -
> pd = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> + if (!pd->hwmon_dev)
> + return 0;
>
> for (i = 0; i < NUM_REAL_CORES; i++) {
> if (pd->cpu_map[i] == topology_core_id(cpu)) {
> @@ -756,13 +739,14 @@ static int coretemp_cpu_offline(unsigned int cpu)
> }
>
> /*
> - * If all cores in this pkg are offline, remove the device. This
> - * will invoke the platform driver remove function, which cleans up
> - * the rest.
> + * If all cores in this pkg are offline, remove the interface.
> */
> + tdata = pd->core_data[PKG_SYSFS_ATTR_NO];
> if (cpumask_empty(&pd->cpumask)) {
> - zone_devices[topology_logical_die_id(cpu)] = NULL;
> - platform_device_unregister(pdev);
> + if (tdata)
> + coretemp_remove_core(pd, PKG_SYSFS_ATTR_NO);
> + hwmon_device_unregister(pd->hwmon_dev);
> + pd->hwmon_dev = NULL;
> return 0;
> }
>
> @@ -770,7 +754,6 @@ static int coretemp_cpu_offline(unsigned int cpu)
> * Check whether this core is the target for the package
> * interface. We need to assign it to some other cpu.
> */
> - tdata = pd->core_data[PKG_SYSFS_ATTR_NO];
> if (tdata && tdata->cpu == cpu) {
> target = cpumask_first(&pd->cpumask);
> mutex_lock(&tdata->update_lock);
> @@ -789,7 +772,7 @@ static enum cpuhp_state coretemp_hp_online;
>
> static int __init coretemp_init(void)
> {
> - int err;
> + int i, err;
>
> /*
> * CPUID.06H.EAX[0] indicates whether the CPU has thermal
> @@ -805,20 +788,22 @@ static int __init coretemp_init(void)
> if (!zone_devices)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> - err = platform_driver_register(&coretemp_driver);
> - if (err)
> - goto outzone;
> + for (i = 0; i < max_zones; i++) {
> + err = coretemp_device_add(i);
> + if (err)
> + goto outzone;
> + }
>
> err = cpuhp_setup_state(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN, "hwmon/coretemp:online",
> coretemp_cpu_online, coretemp_cpu_offline);
> if (err < 0)
> - goto outdrv;
> + goto outzone;
> coretemp_hp_online = err;
> return 0;
>
> -outdrv:
> - platform_driver_unregister(&coretemp_driver);
> outzone:
> + while (i--)
> + coretemp_device_remove(i);
> kfree(zone_devices);
> return err;
> }
> @@ -826,8 +811,11 @@ module_init(coretemp_init)
>
> static void __exit coretemp_exit(void)
> {
> + int i;
> +
> cpuhp_remove_state(coretemp_hp_online);
> - platform_driver_unregister(&coretemp_driver);
> + for (i = 0; i < max_zones; i++)
> + coretemp_device_remove(i);
> kfree(zone_devices);
> }
> module_exit(coretemp_exit)