tree f386fb634774953120abf428f3ea444d3b53c8bd
parent 00717a9de7cda4a0aaa1af184dd694c8d633df48
author Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> 1610649262 +0100
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 1612944567 +0100

ACPI: thermal: Do not call acpi_thermal_check() directly

commit 81b704d3e4674e09781d331df73d76675d5ad8cb upstream.

Calling acpi_thermal_check() from acpi_thermal_notify() directly
is problematic if _TMP triggers Notify () on the thermal zone for
which it has been evaluated (which happens on some systems), because
it causes a new acpi_thermal_notify() invocation to be queued up
every time and if that takes place too often, an indefinite number of
pending work items may accumulate in kacpi_notify_wq over time.

Besides, it is not really useful to queue up a new invocation of
acpi_thermal_check() if one of them is pending already.

For these reasons, rework acpi_thermal_notify() to queue up a thermal
check instead of calling acpi_thermal_check() directly and only allow
one thermal check to be pending at a time.  Moreover, only allow one
acpi_thermal_check_fn() instance at a time to run
thermal_zone_device_update() for one thermal zone and make it return
early if it sees other instances running for the same thermal zone.

While at it, fold acpi_thermal_check() into acpi_thermal_check_fn(),
as it is only called from there after the other changes made here.

[This issue appears to have been exposed by commit 6d25be5782e4
 ("sched/core, workqueues: Distangle worker accounting from rq
 lock"), but it is unclear why it was not visible earlier.]

BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208877
Reported-by: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Diagnosed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: All applicable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
[bigeasy: Backported to v4.9.y, use atomic_t instead of refcount_t]
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>