cpufreq: governor: New sysfs show/store callbacks for governor tunables

The ondemand and conservative governors use the global-attr or freq-attr
structures to represent sysfs attributes corresponding to their tunables
(which of them is actually used depends on whether or not different
policy objects can use the same governor with different tunables at the
same time and, consequently, on where those attributes are located in
sysfs).

Unfortunately, in the freq-attr case, the standard cpufreq show/store
sysfs attribute callbacks are applied to the governor tunable attributes
and they always acquire the policy->rwsem lock before carrying out the
operation.  That may lead to an ABBA deadlock if governor tunable
attributes are removed under policy->rwsem while one of them is being
accessed concurrently (if sysfs attributes removal wins the race, it
will wait for the access to complete with policy->rwsem held while the
attribute callback will block on policy->rwsem indefinitely).

We attempted to address this issue by dropping policy->rwsem around
governor tunable attributes removal (that is, around invocations of the
->governor callback with the event arg equal to CPUFREQ_GOV_POLICY_EXIT)
in cpufreq_set_policy(), but that opened up race conditions that had not
been possible with policy->rwsem held all the time.  Therefore
policy->rwsem cannot be dropped in cpufreq_set_policy() at any point,
but the deadlock situation described above must be avoided too.

To that end, use the observation that in principle governor tunables may
be represented by the same data type regardless of whether the governor
is system-wide or per-policy and introduce a new structure, struct
governor_attr, for representing them and new corresponding macros for
creating show/store sysfs callbacks for them.  Also make their parent
kobject use a new kobject type whose default show/store callbacks are
not related to the standard core cpufreq ones in any way (and they don't
acquire policy->rwsem in particular).

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

1 files changed, 57 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.c
index 3569782..00cb468 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.c
@@ -25,12 +25,58 @@
 DEFINE_MUTEX(dbs_data_mutex);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dbs_data_mutex);
 
-static struct attribute_group *get_sysfs_attr(struct dbs_governor *gov)
+static inline struct dbs_data *to_dbs_data(struct kobject *kobj)
 {
-	return have_governor_per_policy() ?
-		gov->attr_group_gov_pol : gov->attr_group_gov_sys;
+	return container_of(kobj, struct dbs_data, kobj);
 }
 
+static inline struct governor_attr *to_gov_attr(struct attribute *attr)
+{
+	return container_of(attr, struct governor_attr, attr);
+}
+
+static ssize_t governor_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct attribute *attr,
+			     char *buf)
+{
+	struct dbs_data *dbs_data = to_dbs_data(kobj);
+	struct governor_attr *gattr = to_gov_attr(attr);
+	int ret = -EIO;
+
+	if (gattr->show)
+		ret = gattr->show(dbs_data, buf);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+static ssize_t governor_store(struct kobject *kobj, struct attribute *attr,
+			      const char *buf, size_t count)
+{
+	struct dbs_data *dbs_data = to_dbs_data(kobj);
+	struct governor_attr *gattr = to_gov_attr(attr);
+	int ret = -EIO;
+
+	mutex_lock(&dbs_data->mutex);
+
+	if (gattr->store)
+		ret = gattr->store(dbs_data, buf, count);
+
+	mutex_unlock(&dbs_data->mutex);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Sysfs Ops for accessing governor attributes.
+ *
+ * All show/store invocations for governor specific sysfs attributes, will first
+ * call the below show/store callbacks and the attribute specific callback will
+ * be called from within it.
+ */
+static const struct sysfs_ops governor_sysfs_ops = {
+	.show	= governor_show,
+	.store	= governor_store,
+};
+
 void dbs_check_cpu(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
 {
 	int cpu = policy->cpu;
@@ -352,6 +398,7 @@ static int cpufreq_governor_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
 	}
 
 	dbs_data->usage_count = 1;
+	mutex_init(&dbs_data->mutex);
 
 	ret = gov->init(dbs_data, !policy->governor->initialized);
 	if (ret)
@@ -374,12 +421,15 @@ static int cpufreq_governor_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
 	policy_dbs->dbs_data = dbs_data;
 	policy->governor_data = policy_dbs;
 
-	ret = sysfs_create_group(get_governor_parent_kobj(policy),
-				 get_sysfs_attr(gov));
+	gov->kobj_type.sysfs_ops = &governor_sysfs_ops;
+	ret = kobject_init_and_add(&dbs_data->kobj, &gov->kobj_type,
+				   get_governor_parent_kobj(policy),
+				   "%s", gov->gov.name);
 	if (!ret)
 		return 0;
 
 	/* Failure, so roll back. */
+	pr_err("cpufreq: Governor initialization failed (dbs_data kobject init error %d)\n", ret);
 
 	policy->governor_data = NULL;
 
@@ -404,8 +454,7 @@ static int cpufreq_governor_exit(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
 		return -EBUSY;
 
 	if (!--dbs_data->usage_count) {
-		sysfs_remove_group(get_governor_parent_kobj(policy),
-				   get_sysfs_attr(gov));
+		kobject_put(&dbs_data->kobj);
 
 		policy->governor_data = NULL;
 
@@ -413,6 +462,7 @@ static int cpufreq_governor_exit(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
 			gov->gdbs_data = NULL;
 
 		gov->exit(dbs_data, policy->governor->initialized == 1);
+		mutex_destroy(&dbs_data->mutex);
 		kfree(dbs_data);
 	} else {
 		policy->governor_data = NULL;