[PATCH] clean up lock_cpu_hotplug() in cpufreq

There are some callers in cpufreq hotplug notify path that the lowest
function calls lock_cpu_hotplug().  The lock is already held during
cpu_up() and cpu_down() calls when the notify calls are broadcast to
registered clients.

Ideally if possible, we could disable_preempt() at the highest caller and
make sure we dont sleep in the path down in cpufreq->driver_target() calls
but the calls are so intertwined and cumbersome to cleanup.

Hence we consistently use lock_cpu_hotplug() and unlock_cpu_hotplug() in
all places.

 - Removed export of cpucontrol semaphore and made it static.
 - removed explicit uses of up/down with lock_cpu_hotplug()
   so we can keep track of the the callers in same thread context and
   just keep refcounts without calling a down() that causes a deadlock.
 - Removed current_in_hotplug() uses
 - Removed PF_HOTPLUG_CPU in sched.h introduced for the current_in_hotplug()
   temporary workaround.

Tested with insmod of cpufreq_stat.ko, and logical online/offline
to make sure we dont have any hang situations.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
index 1c0f62d0f938..815902c2c856 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
@@ -1113,21 +1113,13 @@ int __cpufreq_driver_target(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
 {
         int retval = -EINVAL;
 
-        /*
-         * If we are already in context of hotplug thread, we dont need to
-         * acquire the hotplug lock. Otherwise acquire cpucontrol to prevent
-         * hotplug from removing this cpu that we are working on.
-         */
-        if (!current_in_cpu_hotplug())
-                lock_cpu_hotplug();
-
+        lock_cpu_hotplug();
         dprintk("target for CPU %u: %u kHz, relation %u\n", policy->cpu,
                 target_freq, relation);
         if (cpu_online(policy->cpu) && cpufreq_driver->target)
                 retval = cpufreq_driver->target(policy, target_freq, relation);
 
-        if (!current_in_cpu_hotplug())
-                unlock_cpu_hotplug();
+        unlock_cpu_hotplug();
 
         return retval;
 }