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authorDaniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>2013-01-03 16:03:18 +0400
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2013-01-03 16:11:06 +0400
commitac34d7c8c87c247db0270285950753da045acaad (patch)
tree1ce0a154f71f4d812da17865454cf25e7bdedfa5 /drivers/cpuidle
parent17915d582f9fe74efbd1c755f3ea5a5c2d9b3156 (diff)
downloadlinux-ac34d7c8c87c247db0270285950753da045acaad.tar.xz
cpuidle: fix lock contention in the idle path
Commit bf4d1b5 (cpuidle: support multiple drivers) introduced locking in cpuidle_get_cpu_driver(), which is used in the idle_call() function. This leads to a contention problem with a large number of CPUs, because they all try to run the idle routine at the same time. The lock can be safely removed because of how is used the cpuidle API. Namely, cpuidle_register_driver() is called first, but the cpuidle idle function is not entered before cpuidle_register_device() is called, because the cpuidle device is not enabled then. Moreover, cpuidle_unregister_driver(), which would reset the driver value to NULL, is not called before cpuidle_unregister_device(). All of the cpuidle drivers use the API in the same way. In general, a cleanup around the lock is necessary and a proper refcounting mechanism should be used to ensure the consistency in the API (for example, cpuidle_unregister_driver() should fail if the driver's refcount is not 0). However, these modifications will require some code reorganization and rewrite which will be too intrusive for a fix. For this reason, fix the contention problem introduced by commit bf4d1b5 by simply removing the locking from cpuidle_get_cpu_driver(), which restores the original behavior of that routine. [rjw: Changelog.] Reported-and-tested-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/cpuidle')
-rw-r--r--drivers/cpuidle/driver.c8
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/driver.c b/drivers/cpuidle/driver.c
index 3af841fb397a..c2b281afe0ed 100644
--- a/drivers/cpuidle/driver.c
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/driver.c
@@ -235,16 +235,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpuidle_get_driver);
*/
struct cpuidle_driver *cpuidle_get_cpu_driver(struct cpuidle_device *dev)
{
- struct cpuidle_driver *drv;
-
if (!dev)
return NULL;
- spin_lock(&cpuidle_driver_lock);
- drv = __cpuidle_get_cpu_driver(dev->cpu);
- spin_unlock(&cpuidle_driver_lock);
-
- return drv;
+ return __cpuidle_get_cpu_driver(dev->cpu);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpuidle_get_cpu_driver);