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, 37 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.h b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.h
index e296362..bdb6e49 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.h
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.h
@@ -160,8 +160,44 @@ struct dbs_data {
 	unsigned int sampling_rate;
 	unsigned int sampling_down_factor;
 	unsigned int up_threshold;
+
+	struct kobject kobj;
+	/* Protect concurrent updates to governor tunables from sysfs */
+	struct mutex mutex;
+};
+
+/* Governor's specific attributes */
+struct dbs_data;
+struct governor_attr {
+	struct attribute attr;
+	ssize_t (*show)(struct dbs_data *dbs_data, char *buf);
+	ssize_t (*store)(struct dbs_data *dbs_data, const char *buf,
+			 size_t count);
 };
 
+#define gov_show_one(_gov, file_name)					\
+static ssize_t show_##file_name						\
+(struct dbs_data *dbs_data, char *buf)					\
+{									\
+	struct _gov##_dbs_tuners *tuners = dbs_data->tuners;		\
+	return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", tuners->file_name);			\
+}
+
+#define gov_show_one_common(file_name)					\
+static ssize_t show_##file_name						\
+(struct dbs_data *dbs_data, char *buf)					\
+{									\
+	return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", dbs_data->file_name);		\
+}
+
+#define gov_attr_ro(_name)						\
+static struct governor_attr _name =					\
+__ATTR(_name, 0444, show_##_name, NULL)
+
+#define gov_attr_rw(_name)						\
+static struct governor_attr _name =					\
+__ATTR(_name, 0644, show_##_name, store_##_name)
+
 /* Common to all CPUs of a policy */
 struct policy_dbs_info {
 	struct cpufreq_policy *policy;
@@ -236,8 +272,7 @@ struct dbs_governor {
 	#define GOV_ONDEMAND		0
 	#define GOV_CONSERVATIVE	1
 	int governor;
-	struct attribute_group *attr_group_gov_sys; /* one governor - system */
-	struct attribute_group *attr_group_gov_pol; /* one governor - policy */
+	struct kobj_type kobj_type;
 
 	/*
 	 * Common data for platforms that don't set