Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: Make cpufreq_online() call driver->offline() on errors

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 8:20 AM Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On 21-06-21, 19:26, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> >
> > In the CPU removal path the ->offline() callback provided by the
> > driver is always invoked before ->exit(),
>
> Note that exit() doesn't get called if offline() is present in the CPU
> removal path. We call exit() _only_ when the cpufreq driver gets
> unregistered.

True, but that doesn't contradict what I said.

> > but in the cpufreq_online()
> > error path it is not, so ->exit() is somehow expected to know the
> > context in which it has been called and act accordingly.
>
> I agree, it isn't very clear.
>
> > That is less than straightforward, so make cpufreq_online() invoke
> > the driver's ->offline() callback before ->exit() too.
> >
> > This only potentially affects intel_pstate at this point.
> >
> > Fixes: 91a12e91dc39 ("cpufreq: Allow light-weight tear down and bring up of CPUs")
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c |    3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >
> > Index: linux-pm/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-pm.orig/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> > +++ linux-pm/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> > @@ -1516,6 +1516,9 @@ out_destroy_policy:
> >       up_write(&policy->rwsem);
> >
> >  out_exit_policy:
> > +     if (cpufreq_driver->offline)
> > +             cpufreq_driver->offline(policy);
> > +
> >       if (cpufreq_driver->exit)
> >               cpufreq_driver->exit(policy);
>
> If we want to go down this path, then we better do more and make it
> very explicit that ->offline() follows a previous invocation of
> ->online().
>
> Otherwise, with above we will end up calling ->offline() for two separate
> states, ->online() failed (i.e. two calls to offline() one after the other
> here) and other generic failures after ->init() passed.

Good point.

> So, better make it clear that online/offline are paired like
> init/exit.
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> index 1d1b563cea4b..0ce48dcb2e8a 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> @@ -1347,14 +1347,11 @@ static int cpufreq_online(unsigned int cpu)
>         }
>
>         if (!new_policy && cpufreq_driver->online) {
> -               ret = cpufreq_driver->online(policy);
> -               if (ret) {
> -                       pr_debug("%s: %d: initialization failed\n", __func__,
> -                                __LINE__);
> -                       goto out_exit_policy;
> -               }
> -
> -               /* Recover policy->cpus using related_cpus */
> +               /*
> +                * We did light-weight tear down earlier, don't need to do heavy
> +                * initialization here. Just recover policy->cpus using
> +                * related_cpus.
> +                */
>                 cpumask_copy(policy->cpus, policy->related_cpus);
>         } else {
>                 cpumask_copy(policy->cpus, cpumask_of(cpu));
> @@ -1378,6 +1375,13 @@ static int cpufreq_online(unsigned int cpu)
>                 cpumask_copy(policy->related_cpus, policy->cpus);
>         }
>
> +       ret = cpufreq_driver->online(policy);

But I wouldn't make this change, because that would require reworking
->init() in the driver too.

Let's continue assuming that ->init() will do ->online() if successful
and so ->offline() is needed after a successful ->init() as well as
after a successful ->online().

> +       if (ret) {
> +               pr_debug("%s: %d: %d: ->online() failed\n", __func__, __LINE__,
> +                        ret);
> +               goto out_exit_policy;
> +       }
> +
>         down_write(&policy->rwsem);
>         /*
>          * affected cpus must always be the one, which are online. We aren't
> @@ -1518,6 +1522,9 @@ static int cpufreq_online(unsigned int cpu)
>
>         up_write(&policy->rwsem);
>

So I think that a new label is needed here to avoid running
->offline() after a failing ->online().

Let me update the patch accordingly.

> +       if (cpufreq_driver->offline)
> +               cpufreq_driver->offline(policy);
> +
>  out_exit_policy:
>         if (cpufreq_driver->exit)
>                 cpufreq_driver->exit(policy);