cpufreq: governor: Create and traverse list of policy_dbs to avoid deadlock

The dbs_data_mutex lock is currently used in two places.  First,
cpufreq_governor_dbs() uses it to guarantee mutual exclusion between
invocations of governor operations from the core.  Second, it is used by
ondemand governor's update_sampling_rate() to ensure the stability of
data structures walked by it.

The second usage is quite problematic, because update_sampling_rate() is
called from a governor sysfs attribute's ->store callback and that leads
to a deadlock scenario involving cpufreq_governor_exit() which runs
under dbs_data_mutex.  Thus it is better to rework the code so
update_sampling_rate() doesn't need to acquire dbs_data_mutex.

To that end, rework update_sampling_rate() to walk a list of policy_dbs
objects supported by the dbs_data one it has been called for (instead of
walking cpu_dbs_info object for all CPUs).  The list manipulation is
protected with dbs_data->mutex which also is held around the execution
of update_sampling_rate(), it is not necessary to hold dbs_data_mutex in
that function any more.

Reported-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Reported-by: Shilpasri G Bhat <shilpa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
[ rjw: Subject & changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.h b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.h
index 0eb66a6c9503..8bf4775ce03c 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.h
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.h
@@ -73,7 +73,11 @@ struct dbs_data {
 	unsigned int up_threshold;
 
 	struct kobject kobj;
-	/* Protect concurrent updates to governor tunables from sysfs */
+	struct list_head policy_dbs_list;
+	/*
+	 * Protect concurrent updates to governor tunables from sysfs,
+	 * policy_dbs_list and usage_count.
+	 */
 	struct mutex mutex;
 };
 
@@ -125,6 +129,7 @@ struct policy_dbs_info {
 	struct work_struct work;
 	/* dbs_data may be shared between multiple policy objects */
 	struct dbs_data *dbs_data;
+	struct list_head list;
 };
 
 static inline void gov_update_sample_delay(struct policy_dbs_info *policy_dbs,