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Viresh Kumar 46770be0cf cpufreq: Register drivers only after CPU devices have been registered
The cpufreq core heavily depends on the availability of the struct
device for CPUs and if they aren't available at the time cpufreq driver
is registered, we will never succeed in making cpufreq work.

This happens due to following sequence of events:

- cpufreq_register_driver()
  - subsys_interface_register()
  - return 0; //successful registration of driver

... at a later point of time

- register_cpu();
  - device_register();
    - bus_probe_device();
      - sif->add_dev();
	- cpufreq_add_dev();
	  - get_cpu_device(); //FAILS
  - per_cpu(cpu_sys_devices, num) = &cpu->dev; //used by get_cpu_device()
  - return 0; //CPU registered successfully

Because the per-cpu variable cpu_sys_devices is set only after the CPU
device is regsitered, cpufreq will never be able to get it when
cpufreq_add_dev() is called.

This patch avoids this failure by making sure device structure of at
least CPU0 is available when the cpufreq driver is registered, else
return -EPROBE_DEFER.

Reported-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
Co-developed-by: Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2019-11-14 09:37:14 +01:00
arch Merge branch 'cpufreq/arm/linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vireshk/pm 2019-11-11 22:09:49 +01:00
block iocost: don't nest spin_lock_irq in ioc_weight_write() 2019-10-31 11:40:57 -06:00
certs PKCS#7: Refactor verify_pkcs7_signature() 2019-08-05 18:40:18 -04:00
crypto Merge branch 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-09-28 08:14:15 -07:00
Documentation Merge branch 'cpufreq/arm/linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vireshk/pm 2019-11-11 22:09:49 +01:00
drivers cpufreq: Register drivers only after CPU devices have been registered 2019-11-14 09:37:14 +01:00
fs a small smb3 memleak fix 2019-11-02 14:34:00 -07:00
include Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-11-01 17:48:11 -07:00
init Merge branch 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-09-28 08:14:15 -07:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: convert to use built-in RCU list checking 2019-09-25 17:51:41 -07:00
kernel Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-11-01 17:48:11 -07:00
lib lib/vdso: Make clock_getres() POSIX compliant again 2019-10-23 14:48:23 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm mm/thp: allow dropping THP from page cache 2019-10-19 06:32:33 -04:00
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samples samples/bpf: Add a workaround for asm_inline 2019-10-03 17:37:11 +02:00
scripts Modules fixes for v5.4-rc5 2019-10-25 16:11:55 -04:00
security efi/efi_test: Lock down /dev/efi_test and require CAP_SYS_ADMIN 2019-10-31 09:40:21 +01:00
sound ALSA: timer: Fix mutex deadlock at releasing card 2019-10-30 22:54:56 +01:00
tools USB fixes for 5.4-rc6 2019-11-03 08:25:25 -08:00
usr kbuild: update compile-test header list for v5.4-rc2 2019-10-05 15:29:49 +09:00
virt kvm: call kvm_arch_destroy_vm if vm creation fails 2019-10-31 12:13:16 +01:00
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.mailmap A few MIPS fixes: 2019-10-26 19:43:12 -04:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Simon as Renesas SoC Co-Maintainer 2019-10-10 08:12:51 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'cpufreq/arm/linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vireshk/pm 2019-11-11 22:09:49 +01:00
Makefile Linux 5.4-rc6 2019-11-03 14:07:26 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.