arm64: skip register_cpufreq_notifier on ACPI-based systems
authorPrashanth Prakash <pprakash@codeaurora.org>
Thu, 26 Jan 2017 18:08:32 +0000 (11:08 -0700)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Fri, 27 Jan 2017 11:30:36 +0000 (11:30 +0000)
On ACPI based systems where the topology is setup using the API
store_cpu_topology, at the moment we do not have necessary code
to parse cpu capacity and handle cpufreq notifier, thus
resulting in a kernel panic.

Stack:
        init_cpu_capacity_callback+0xb4/0x1c8
        notifier_call_chain+0x5c/0xa0
        __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x58/0xa0
        blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x3c/0x50
        cpufreq_set_policy+0xe4/0x328
        cpufreq_init_policy+0x80/0x100
        cpufreq_online+0x418/0x710
        cpufreq_add_dev+0x118/0x180
        subsys_interface_register+0xa4/0xf8
        cpufreq_register_driver+0x1c0/0x298
        cppc_cpufreq_init+0xdc/0x1000 [cppc_cpufreq]
        do_one_initcall+0x5c/0x168
        do_init_module+0x64/0x1e4
        load_module+0x130c/0x14d0
        SyS_finit_module+0x108/0x120
        el0_svc_naked+0x24/0x28

Fixes: 7202bde8b7ae ("arm64: parse cpu capacity-dmips-mhz from DT")
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Prashanth Prakash <pprakash@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c

index 23e9e13bd2aa797840fcd79e2d61e747ebbe42f6..655e65f38f315758b617d6aaa89f8feed63b496a 100644 (file)
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
  * for more details.
  */
 
+#include <linux/acpi.h>
 #include <linux/cpu.h>
 #include <linux/cpumask.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
@@ -209,7 +210,12 @@ static struct notifier_block init_cpu_capacity_notifier = {
 
 static int __init register_cpufreq_notifier(void)
 {
-       if (cap_parsing_failed)
+       /*
+        * on ACPI-based systems we need to use the default cpu capacity
+        * until we have the necessary code to parse the cpu capacity, so
+        * skip registering cpufreq notifier.
+        */
+       if (!acpi_disabled || cap_parsing_failed)
                return -EINVAL;
 
        if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&cpus_to_visit, GFP_KERNEL)) {