[PATCH] PM: EM: do not allow pd creation prior to debugfs initialization

[PATCH] PM: EM: do not allow pd creation prior to debugfs initialization

[Lingutla Chandrasekhar]

em_dev_register_perf_domain() can be called from any initcall level before
debugfs initialization, this allowed to create power domain debug entries
of the caller at unintended root_dir.

Fix it by not allowing creation of power domain debug entries, if root_dir
is not available.

Signed-off-by: Lingutla Chandrasekhar <clingutla@codeaurora.org>

diff --git a/kernel/power/energy_model.c b/kernel/power/energy_model.c
index a332ccd829e2..fe5a207d4023 100644
--- a/kernel/power/energy_model.c
+++ b/kernel/power/energy_model.c
@@ -68,6 +68,11 @@ static void em_debug_create_pd(struct device *dev)
 	struct dentry *d;
 	int i;
 
+	if (!rootdir) {
+		pr_err("EM: energy_model debug is not available yet\n");
+		return;
+	}
+
 	/* Create the directory of the performance domain */
 	d = debugfs_create_dir(dev_name(dev), rootdir);
 
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Re: [PATCH] PM: EM: do not allow pd creation prior to debugfs initialization

[Lukasz Luba]

On 10/19/21 4:28 PM, Lingutla Chandrasekhar wrote:
> em_dev_register_perf_domain() can be called from any initcall level before

The EM is registered by cpufreq drivers (or devfreq), which is later
than fs_initcall, so the debugfs is setup. We even have added recently
a dedicated callback into the cpufreq (register_em()) for that.

Do you have such code which registers EM for CPUs (or some devfreq)
earlier than this fs_initcall?

I cannot find such code in mainline.

Regards,
Lukasz

Re: [PATCH] PM: EM: do not allow pd creation prior to debugfs initialization

[Chandrasekhar L]

Thanks Lukasz for comment.
For any reason (ex: HW dependency, etc), if  init_call level of cpufreq/devfreq driver changed
prior to fs_init call, we would land there right?

One of such example is, 'drivers/cpufreq/qcom-cpufreq-hw.c' uses postcore_initcall().

Thanks,
Chandrasekhar L


On 10/19/2021 10:35 PM, Lukasz Luba wrote:
>
>
> On 10/19/21 4:28 PM, Lingutla Chandrasekhar wrote:
>> em_dev_register_perf_domain() can be called from any initcall level before
>
> The EM is registered by cpufreq drivers (or devfreq), which is later
> than fs_initcall, so the debugfs is setup. We even have added recently
> a dedicated callback into the cpufreq (register_em()) for that.
>
> Do you have such code which registers EM for CPUs (or some devfreq)
> earlier than this fs_initcall?
>
> I cannot find such code in mainline.
>
> Regards,
> Lukasz

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Re: [PATCH] PM: EM: do not allow pd creation prior to debugfs initialization

[Lukasz Luba]

On 10/20/21 1:03 PM, Chandrasekhar L wrote:
> Thanks Lukasz for comment.
> For any reason (ex: HW dependency, etc), if  init_call level of cpufreq/devfreq driver changed
> prior to fs_init call, we would land there right?

It's not the same triggering point, so we should be safe.

> 
> One of such example is, 'drivers/cpufreq/qcom-cpufreq-hw.c' uses postcore_initcall().

It uses the postcore_initcall to probe and register a driver into
the cpufreq framework. Then the cpufreq framework later constructs the
'policy' and calls your cpufreq_driver::init() function that your
driver provided during registration. Thus, these are two different
phases. It used to be true that if a driver required to use an
'advanced' EM registration with custom private 'em_data_callback',
we put the registration call into that .init() code [1] (old [2]).
Recently Viresh added a dedicated callback for this, which IMO
is good and avoids confusion where to put that custom registration
code.

In your driver code, there is also this callback but using a
generic function [3]. It's a 'simple' EM, which is based on OPP
framework helper. A few drivers use that option, if their platform
doesn't need the 'advanced' EM (but that's not in $subject).

Regards,
Lukasz


[1] 
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.15-rc1/source/drivers/cpufreq/scmi-cpufreq.c#L249
[2] 
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.14/source/drivers/cpufreq/scmi-cpufreq.c#L192
[3] 
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.15-rc6/source/drivers/cpufreq/qcom-cpufreq-hw.c#L561