Re: [PATCH] Revert "PM / devfreq: Modify the device name as devfreq(X) for sysfs"

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 05:11:02PM +0900, Chanwoo Choi wrote:
> On 2/21/20 4:06 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 11:47:41AM -0800, John Stultz wrote:
> >> On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 11:15 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> >> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 01:37:04AM +0800, Orson Zhai wrote:
> >>>> This reverts commit 4585fbcb5331fc910b7e553ad3efd0dd7b320d14.
> >>>>
> >>>> The name changing as devfreq(X) breaks some user space applications,
> >>>> such as Android HAL from Unisoc and Hikey [1].
> >>>> The device name will be changed unexpectly after every boot depending
> >>>> on module init sequence. It will make trouble to setup some system
> >>>> configuration like selinux for Android.
> >>>>
> >>>> So we'd like to revert it back to old naming rule before any better
> >>>> way being found.
> >>>>
> >>>> [1] https://protect2.fireeye.com/url?k=00fa721e-5d2a7af6-00fbf951-000babff32e3-95e4b92259b05656&u=https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/5/8/1042
> >>>>
> >>>> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
> >>>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> >>>> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Orson Zhai <orson.unisoc@gmail.com>
> >>>>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>  drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c | 4 +---
> >>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >>>>
> >>>> diff --git a/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c b/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
> >>>> index cceee8b..7dcf209 100644
> >>>> --- a/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
> >>>> +++ b/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
> >>>> @@ -738,7 +738,6 @@ struct devfreq *devfreq_add_device(struct device *dev,
> >>>>  {
> >>>>       struct devfreq *devfreq;
> >>>>       struct devfreq_governor *governor;
> >>>> -     static atomic_t devfreq_no = ATOMIC_INIT(-1);
> >>>>       int err = 0;
> >>>>
> >>>>       if (!dev || !profile || !governor_name) {
> >>>> @@ -800,8 +799,7 @@ struct devfreq *devfreq_add_device(struct device *dev,
> >>>>       devfreq->suspend_freq = dev_pm_opp_get_suspend_opp_freq(dev);
> >>>>       atomic_set(&devfreq->suspend_count, 0);
> >>>>
> >>>> -     dev_set_name(&devfreq->dev, "devfreq%d",
> >>>> -                             atomic_inc_return(&devfreq_no));
> >>>> +     dev_set_name(&devfreq->dev, "%s", dev_name(dev));
> >>>>       err = device_register(&devfreq->dev);
> >>>>       if (err) {
> >>>>               mutex_unlock(&devfreq->lock);
> >>>> --
> >>>> 2.7.4
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for this, I agree, this needs to get back to the way things were
> >>> as it seems to break too many existing systems as-is.
> >>>
> >>> I'll queue this up in my tree now, thanks.
> >>
> >> Oof this old thing. I unfortunately didn't get back to look at the
> >> devfreq name node issue or the compatibility links, since the impact
> >> of the regression (breaking the powerHAL's interactions with the gpu)
> >> wasn't as big as other problems we had. While the regression was
> >> frustrating, my only hesitancy at this point is that its been this way
> >> since 4.10, so reverting the problematic patch is likely to break any
> >> new users since then.
> > 
> > Looks like most users just revert that commit in their trees:
> > 	https://protect2.fireeye.com/url?k=1012ad0f-4dc2a5e7-10132640-000babff32e3-35779c5ed675ef0f&u=https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-4.14/commit/drivers/devfreq?h=msm-4.14&id=ccf273f6d89ad0fa8032e9225305ad6f62c7770c
> > 
> > So we should be ok here.
> 
> I'm sorry about changing the devfreq node name.
> 
> OK. Do you pick this patch to your tree?

Yes, I can do that.

> or If not, I'll apply it to devfreq-next branch for v5.7-rc1.
> 
> And do you apply it to kernel of linux-stable tree since 4.11?

Yeah, I'll mark it for stable.

Can I get an ack from you for this?

thanks,

greg k-h