The first offline/online cycle is successful, the second not.
Doing:
echo 0 >cpu1/online
echo 1 >cpu1/online
echo 0 >cpu1/online

The last command will trigger:
Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [  593.210125] ------------[ cut here ]------------
Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [  593.210139] WARNING: at lib/kref.c:43 kref_get+0x23/0x2b()
Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [  593.210144] Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [  593.210148] Modules linked in: powernow_k8
Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [  593.210158] Pid: 378, comm: kondemand/2 Tainted: G        W  2.6.31-rc2 #38
Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [  593.210163] Call Trace:
Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [  593.210171]  [<ffffffff812008e8>] ? kref_get+0x23/0x2b
Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [  593.210181]  [<ffffffff81041926>] warn_slowpath_common+0x77/0xa4
Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [  593.210190]  [<ffffffff81041962>] warn_slowpath_null+0xf/0x11
Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [  593.210198]  [<ffffffff812008e8>] kref_get+0x23/0x2b
Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [  593.210206]  [<ffffffff811ffa19>] kobject_get+0x1a/0x22
Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [  593.210214]  [<ffffffff813e815d>] cpufreq_cpu_get+0x8a/0xcb
Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [  593.210222]  [<ffffffff813e87d1>] __cpufreq_driver_getavg+0x1d/0x67
Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [  593.210231]  [<ffffffff813ea18f>] do_dbs_timer+0x158/0x27f
Jul 22 14:39:50 linux kernel: [  593.210240]  [<ffffffff810529ea>] worker_thread+0x200/0x313
...

The output continues on every do_dbs_timer ondemand freq checking poll.
This regression was introduced by git commit:
3f4a782b

The policy is released when the cpufreq device is removed in:
__cpufreq_remove_dev():
	/* if this isn't the CPU which is the parent of the kobj, we
	 * only need to unlink, put and exit
	 */

Not creating the symlink is not sever at all.
As long as:
sysfs_remove_link(&sys_dev->kobj, "cpufreq");
handles it gracefully that the symlink did not exist.
Possibly no error should be returned at all, because ondemand
governor would still provide the same functionality.
Userspace in userspace gov case might be confused if the link
is missing.

Resolves http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13903

CC: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
CC: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

Suspend/Resume fails on multi socket, multi core systems because the cpufreq
code erroneously sets the per_cpu policy_cpu value when a logical cpu is
offline.

This most notably results in missing sysfs files that are used to set the
cpu frequencies of the various cpus.
Signed-off-by: NPrarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

managed_policy is out of scope for the non-smp case.
Declare it locally where used (twice)
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

OK, I've tried to clean it up the best I could, but please test this with
concurrent cpu hotplug and cpufreq add/remove in loops. I'm sure we will make
other interesting findings.

This is step one of fixing the overall locking dependency mess in cpufreq.
Signed-off-by: NMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
CC: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
CC: rjw@sisk.pl
CC: mingo@elte.hu
CC: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
CC: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
CC: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
CC: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
CC: sven.wegener@stealer.net
CC: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
CC: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

Commit b14893a6 although it was very
much needed to properly cleanup ondemand timer, opened-up a can of worms
related to locking dependencies in cpufreq.

Patch here defines the need for dbs_mutex and cleans up its usage in
ondemand governor. This also resolves the lockdep warnings reported here

http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0906.1/01925.html
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0907.0/00820.html

and few others..
Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

These are defined as static cpumask_var_t so if MAXSMP is not used,
they are cleared already.  Avoid surprises when MAXSMP is enabled.
Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

* Rafael J. Wysocki (rjw@sisk.pl) wrote:
> This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report
> of regressions introduced between 2.6.28 and 2.6.29.
>
> The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
> introduced between 2.6.28 and 2.6.29.  Please verify if it still should
> be listed and let me know (either way).
>
>
> Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13186
> Subject		: cpufreq timer teardown problem
> Submitter	: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
> Date		: 2009-04-23 14:00 (24 days old)
> References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124049523515036&w=4
> Handled-By	: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
> Patch		: http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/19754/
> 		  http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/19753/

The patches linked above depend on the following patch to remove
circular locking dependency :

cpufreq: remove rwsem lock from CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP call

(the following issue was faced when using cancel_delayed_work_sync() in the
timer teardown (which fixes a race).

* KOSAKI Motohiro (kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com) wrote:
> Hi
>
> my box output following warnings.
> it seems regression by commit 7ccc7608b836e58fbacf65ee4f8eefa288e86fac.
>
> A: work -> do_dbs_timer()  -> cpu_policy_rwsem
> B: store() -> cpu_policy_rwsem -> cpufreq_governor_dbs() -> work
>
>

Hrm, I think it must be due to my attempt to fix the timer teardown race
in ondemand governor mixed with new locking behavior in 2.6.30-rc.

The rwlock seems to be taken around the whole call to
cpufreq_governor_dbs(), when it should be only taken around accesses to
the locked data, and especially *not* around the call to
dbs_timer_exit().

Reverting my fix attempt would put the teardown race back in place
(replacing the cancel_delayed_work_sync by cancel_delayed_work).
Instead, a proper fix would imply modifying this critical section :

cpufreq.c: __cpufreq_remove_dev()
...
        if (cpufreq_driver->target)
                __cpufreq_governor(data, CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP);

        unlock_policy_rwsem_write(cpu);

To make sure the __cpufreq_governor() callback is not called with rwsem
held. This would allow execution of cancel_delayed_work_sync() without
being nested within the rwsem.

Applies on top of the 2.6.30-rc5 tree.

Required to remove circular dep in teardown of both conservative and
ondemande governors so they can use cancel_delayed_work_sync().
CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP does not modify the policy, therefore this locking seemed
unneeded.
Signed-off-by: NMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
CC: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
CC: Ben Slusky <sluskyb@paranoiacs.org>
CC: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

This reverts commit e088e4c9.

Removing the sysfs interface for p4-clockmod was flagged as a
regression in bug 12826.

Course of action:
 - Find out the remaining causes of overheating, and fix them
   if possible. ACPI should be doing the right thing automatically.
   If it isn't, we need to fix that.
 - mark p4-clockmod ui as deprecated
 - try again with the removal in six months.

It's not really feasible to printk about the deprecation, because
it needs to happen at all the sysfs entry points, which means adding
a lot of strcmp("p4-clockmod".. calls to the core, which.. bleuch.
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

It's not only useful for the ondemand and conservative governors, but
also for userspace daemons to know about the HW transition latency of
the CPU.
It is especially useful for userspace to know about this value when
the ondemand or conservative governors are run. The sampling rate
control value depends on it and for userspace being able to set sane
tuning values there it has to know about the transition latency.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

Impact: use new cpumask API to reduce memory usage

This is part of an effort to reduce structure sizes for machines
configured with large NR_CPUS.  cpumask_t gets replaced by
cpumask_var_t, which is either struct cpumask[1] (small NR_CPUS) or
struct cpumask * (large NR_CPUS).
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: NMike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Acked-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Previously driver resume would always set the current policy min/max with
the cpuinfo min/max, defined by user_policy.min/max. Resulting in a reset
of policy settings when policy.min/max != cpuinfo.min/max when coming out
of suspend. Now user_policy is saved as the policy instead of cpuinfo to
preserve what the user actually set.
Signed-off-by: NMike Chan <mike@android.com>
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

p4-clockmod has a long history of abuse.   It pretends to be a CPU
frequency scaling driver, even though it doesn't actually change
the CPU frequency, but instead just modulates the frequency with
wait-states.
The biggest misconception is that when running at the lower 'frequency'
p4-clockmod is saving power.  This isn't the case, as workloads running
slower take longer to complete, preventing the CPU from entering deep C states.

However p4-clockmod does have a purpose.  It can prevent overheating.
Having it hooked up to the cpufreq interfaces is the wrong way to achieve
cooling however. It should instead be hooked up to ACPI.

This diff introduces a means for a cpufreq driver to register with the
cpufreq core, but not present a sysfs interface.
Signed-off-by: NMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

Add a cpu parameter to __cpufreq_driver_getavg(). This is needed for software
cpufreq coordination where policy->cpu may not be same as the CPU on which we
want to getavg frequency.

A follow-on patch will use this parameter to getavg freq from all cpus
in policy->cpus.

Change since last patch. Fix the offline/online and suspend/resume
oops reported by Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

After calling cpufreq_cpu_get, error handling code should call
cpufreq_cpu_put.

The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// <smpl>
@r@
expression x,E;
statement S;
position p1,p2,p3;
@@

(
if ((x = cpufreq_cpu_get@p1(...)) == NULL || ...) S
|
x = cpufreq_cpu_get@p1(...)
... when != x
if (x == NULL || ...) S
)
<...
if@p3 (...) { ... when != cpufreq_cpu_put(x)
                  when != if (x) { ... cpufreq_cpu_put(x); ...}
    return@p2 ...;
}
...>
(
return x;
|
return 0;
|
x = E
|
E = x
|
cpufreq_cpu_put(x)
)

@exists@
position r.p1,r.p2,r.p3;
expression x;
int ret != 0;
statement S;
@@

* x = cpufreq_cpu_get@p1(...)
  <...
* if@p3 (...)
  S
  ...>
* return@p2 \(NULL\|ret\);
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: NJulia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

Ingo Molnar provided a fix to not call _PPC at processor driver
initialization time in "[PATCH] ACPI: fix cpufreq regression" (git
commit e4233dec)

But it can still happen that _PPC is called at processor driver
initialization time.

This patch should make sure that this is not possible anymore.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Format string bug.  Not exploitable, as this is only writable by root,
but worth fixing all the same.
Spotted-by: NIlja van Sprundel <ilja@netric.org>
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

If cpu specific cpufreq driver(i.e.  longrun) has "setpolicy" function,
governor object isn't set into cpufreq_policy object at "__cpufreq_set_policy"
function in driver/cpufreq/cpufreq.c .

This causes a null object access at "store_scaling_setspeed" and
"show_scaling_setspeed" function in driver/cpufreq/cpufreq.c when reading or
writing through /sys interface (ex.  cat
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed)

Addresses:
	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10654
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443354Signed-off-by: NCHIKAMA Masaki <masaki.chikama@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NDominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

In drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c the function cpufreq_add_dev() takes the
error exit 'err_out_unregister' from different places once with the
'cpu_policy_rwsem' lock held, once with the lock released:
|		if (ret)
|			goto err_out_unregister;
|	}
|
|	policy->governor = NULL; /* to assure that the starting sequence is
|				  * run in cpufreq_set_policy */
|
|	/* set default policy */
|	ret = __cpufreq_set_policy(policy, &new_policy);
|	policy->user_policy.policy = policy->policy;
|	policy->user_policy.governor = policy->governor;
|
|	unlock_policy_rwsem_write(cpu);
|
|	if (ret) {
|		dprintk("setting policy failed\n");
|		goto err_out_unregister;
|	}

This leads to the following error message in case of a failing
__cpufreq_set_policy() call:
=====================================
[ BUG: bad unlock balance detected! ]
-------------------------------------
swapper/1 is trying to release lock (&per_cpu(cpu_policy_rwsem, cpu)) at:
[<c01b4564>] unlock_policy_rwsem_write+0x30/0x40
but there are no more locks to release!

other info that might help us debug this:
1 lock held by swapper/1:
 #0:  (sysdev_drivers_lock){--..}, at: [<c018fd18>] sysdev_driver_register+0x74/0x130

stack backtrace:
[<c002f588>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x14) from [<c00692fc>] (print_unlock_inbalance_bug+0xc8/0x104)
[<c0069234>] (print_unlock_inbalance_bug+0x0/0x104) from [<c006b7ac>] (lock_release_non_nested+0xc4/0x19c)
 r6:00000028 r5:c3c1ab80 r4:c01b4564
[<c006b6e8>] (lock_release_non_nested+0x0/0x19c) from [<c006b9e0>] (lock_release+0x15c/0x18c)
 r8:60000013 r7:00000001 r6:c01b4564 r5:c0541bb4 r4:c3c1ab80
[<c006b884>] (lock_release+0x0/0x18c) from [<c0061ba0>] (up_write+0x24/0x30)
 r8:c0541b80 r7:00000000 r6:ffffffea r5:c3c34828 r4:c0541b8c
[<c0061b7c>] (up_write+0x0/0x30) from [<c01b4564>] (unlock_policy_rwsem_write+0x30/0x40)
 r4:c3c34884
[<c01b4534>] (unlock_policy_rwsem_write+0x0/0x40) from [<c01b4c40>] (cpufreq_add_dev+0x324/0x398)
[<c01b491c>] (cpufreq_add_dev+0x0/0x398) from [<c018fd64>] (sysdev_driver_register+0xc0/0x130)
[<c018fca4>] (sysdev_driver_register+0x0/0x130) from [<c01b3574>] (cpufreq_register_driver+0xbc/0x174)
Signed-off-by: NLothar Waßmann <LW@KARO-electronics.de>
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

Change references from for_each_cpu_mask to for_each_cpu_mask_nr
where appropriate
Reviewed-by: NPaul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NMike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Change cpufreq_policy and cpufreq_governor pointer tables
from arrays to per_cpu variables in the cpufreq subsystem.

Also some minor complaints from checkpatch.pl fixed.

Based on:
	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.gitSigned-off-by: NMike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

Currently, affected_cpus shows which CPUs need to have their frequency
coordinated in software.  When hardware coordination is in use, the contents
of this file appear the same as when no coordination is required.  This can
lead to some confusion among user-space programs, for example, that do not
know that extra coordination is required to force a CPU core to a particular
speed to control power consumption.

To fix this, create a "related_cpus" attribute that always displays the
coordination map regardless of whatever coordination strategy the cpufreq
driver uses (sw or hw).  If the cpufreq driver does not provide a value, fall
back to policy->cpus.
Signed-off-by: NDarrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

If cpufreq_register_notifier is called before pure initcalls,
init_cpufreq_transition_notifier_list will overwrite whatever it did,
causing notifiers to be ignored.

Print some noise to the kernel log if that happens.
Signed-off-by: NCesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.net>
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>

Simplify this by moving the unlocking out of the error
paths into the exit path.
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>

void * p   ->  void *p
no space between function parameters
removed excess whitespace
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>

return is not a function.
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

Fix the following warnings:
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xfe6711): Section mismatch in reference from the function cpufreq_unregister_driver() to the variable .cpuinit.data:cpufreq_cpu_notifier
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xfe68af): Section mismatch in reference from the function cpufreq_register_driver() to the variable .cpuinit.data:cpufreq_cpu_notifier
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.exit.text+0xc4fa): Section mismatch in reference from the function cpufreq_stats_exit() to the variable .cpuinit.data:cpufreq_stat_cpu_notifier

The warnings were casued by references to unregister_hotcpu_notifier()
from normal functions or exit functions.
This is flagged by modpost as a potential error because
it does not know that for the non HOTPLUG_CPU
scenario the unregister_hotcpu_notifier() is a nop.
Silence the warning by replacing the __initdata
annotation with a __refdata annotation.
Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>

refactor to use gotos instead of explicit exit paths
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

refactor to use gotos instead of explicit exit paths
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

The cpufreq core should not take an extra kobject reference count for no
reason, and then refuse to release it.  This has been reported as
keeping machines from properly powering down all the way.
Signed-off-by: NBalaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Yi Yang <yi.y.yang@intel.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Eliminate cpufreq_userspace scaling_setspeed deadlock.

Luming Yu recently uncovered yet another cpufreq related deadlock.
One thread that continuously switches the governors and the other thread that
repeatedly cats the contents of cpufreq directory causes both these threads to
go into a deadlock.

Detailed examination of the deadlock showed the exact flow before the deadlock
as:

Thread 1			Thread 2
________			________
				cats files under /sys/devices/.../cpufreq/
Set governor to userspace
  Adds a new sysfs entry for
  scaling_setspeed
				cats files under /sys/devices/.../cpufreq/

Set governor to performance
  Holds cpufreq_rw_sem in write
  mode
  Sends a STOP notify to
  userspace governor
				cat /sys/devices/.../cpufreq/scaling_setspeed
				  Gets a handle on the above sysfs entry with
				  sysfs_get_active
				  Blocks while trying to get cpufreq_rw_sem
				  in read mode
  Remove a sysfs entry for
  scaling_setspeed
    Blocks on sysfs_deactivate
    while waiting for earlier
    get_active (on other thread)
    to drain

At this point both threads go into deadlock and any other thread that tries to
do anything with sysfs cpufreq will also block.

There seems to be no easy way to avoid this deadlock as long as
cpufreq_userspace adds/removes the sysfs entry under same kobject as cpufreq.
Below patch moves scaling_setspeed to cpufreq.c, keeping it always and calling
back the governor on read/write. This is the cleanest fix I could think of,
even though adding two callbacks in governor structure just for this seems
unnecessary.

Note that the change makes scaling_setspeed under /sys/.../cpufreq permanent
and returns <unsupported> when governor is not userspace.
Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

The function __cpufreq_set_policy in file drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
has a very obvious error:

        if (policy->min > data->min && policy->min > policy->max) {
                ret = -EINVAL;
                goto error_out;
        }

This condtion statement is wrong because it returns -EINVAL only if
policy->min is greater than policy->max (in this case,
"policy->min > data->min" is true for ever.). In fact, it should
return -EINVAL as well if policy->max is less than data->min.

The correct condition should be:

	if (policy->min > data->max || policy->max < data->min) {

The following test result testifies the above conclusion:

Before applying this patch:

[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies
2394000 1596000
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 1596000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
1596000
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq
1596000
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo "2000000" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq
1596000
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo "0" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
1596000
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo "1595000" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
1596000
[root@yangyi-dev /]#

After applying this patch:

[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies
2394000 1596000
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 1596000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
1596000
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq
1596000
[root@localhost /]# echo "2000000" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
[root@localhost /]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq
1596000
[root@localhost /]# echo "0" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
[root@localhost /]# echo "1595000" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
[root@localhost /]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
1596000
[root@localhost /]# echo "1596000" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
[root@localhost /]# echo "2394000" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
[root@localhost /]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
2394000
[root@localhost /]
Signed-off-by: NYi Yang <yi.y.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

There is no need for kobject_unregister() anymore, thanks to Kay's
kobject cleanup changes, so replace all instances of it with
kobject_put().


Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Stop using kobject_register, as this way we can control the sending of
the uevent properly, after everything is properly initialized.

Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Ingo hit some BUG_ONs that were probably caused by these missing unlocks
causing an unbalance.  He couldn't reproduce the bug reliably, so it's
unknown that it's definitly fixing the problem he hit, but it's a fairly
good chance, and this fixes an obvious bug.

[ Dave: "Ingo followed up that he hit some lockdep related output with
         this applied, so it may not be right.  I'll look at it after
         xmas if no-one has it figured out before then."
  Akpm: "It looks pretty correct to me though." ]
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

A number of different drivers incorrect access the kobject name field
directly.  This is not correct as the name might not be in the array.
Use the proper accessor function instead.

I don't see any reason to take an expensive lock in cpufreq_quick_get()
Reading policy->cur is a single atomic operation and after
the lock is dropped again the state could change any time anyways.

So don't take the lock in the first place.

This also makes this function interrupt safe which is useful
for some code of mine.
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

The notifier_block is already __cpuinitdata, thereby allowing us to safely
mark the callback function as __cpuinit also, thereby saving space when
HOTPLUG_CPU=n.
Signed-off-by: NSatyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>