tree 7e1acaa2d116dad92e83355eb36dc26831d1accf
parent d1922f02562fe230396400e466e6e38dfeb072f5
author Xiaoguang Chen <chenxg@marvell.com> 1371625207 +0800
committer Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> 1371768964 +0200

cpufreq: Fix governor start/stop race condition

Cpufreq governors' stop and start operations should be carried out
in sequence.  Otherwise, there will be unexpected behavior, like in
the example below.

Suppose there are 4 CPUs and policy->cpu=CPU0, CPU1/2/3 are linked
to CPU0.  The normal sequence is:

 1) Current governor is userspace.  An application tries to set the
    governor to ondemand.  It will call __cpufreq_set_policy() in
    which it will stop the userspace governor and then start the
    ondemand governor.

 2) Current governor is userspace.  The online of CPU3 runs on CPU0.
    It will call cpufreq_add_policy_cpu() in which it will first
    stop the userspace governor, and then start it again.

If the sequence of the above two cases interleaves, it becomes:

 1) Application stops userspace governor
 2)                                  Hotplug stops userspace governor

which is a problem, because the governor shouldn't be stopped twice
in a row.  What happens next is:

 3) Application starts ondemand governor
 4)                                  Hotplug starts a governor

In step 4, the hotplug is supposed to start the userspace governor,
but now the governor has been changed by the application to ondemand,
so the ondemand governor is started once again, which is incorrect.

The solution is to prevent policy governors from being stopped
multiple times in a row.  A governor should only be stopped once for
one policy.  After it has been stopped, no more governor stop
operations should be executed.

Also add a mutex to serialize governor operations.

[rjw: Changelog.  And you owe me a beverage of my choice.]
Signed-off-by: Xiaoguang Chen <chenxg@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>