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SubjectRe: [BUG 3.12.rc4] Oops: unable to handle kernel paging request during shutdown
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On Friday, October 25, 2013 11:07:40 AM Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> wrote:
> > On Friday, October 25, 2013 11:51:40 AM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >
> > /* don't keep reloading if cpufreq_driver exists */
> > if (cpufreq_get_current_driver())
> > - return 0;
> > + return -EEXIST;
> >
> > if (acpi_disabled)
> > - return 0;
> > + return -ENODEV;
> >
> > pr_debug("acpi_cpufreq_init\n");
>
> I think:
>
> - EBUSY is a better error return than EEXIST here/

My concern about using -EBUSY here was that it might be interpreted as
"try again" by things like udev (which is not what I want to happen).

> - do the ENODEV case first, because claiming something is busy when
> you couldn't have used it anyway is kind of stupid)

Agreed.

> but yeah, this looks like the right thing. Let's make sure there
> aren't any annoying error messages etc printed out as a result of
> this, though.

Updated patch is appended.

Rafael


---
drivers/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Index: linux-pm/drivers/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
===================================================================
--- linux-pm.orig/drivers/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
+++ linux-pm/drivers/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
@@ -986,12 +986,12 @@ static int __init acpi_cpufreq_init(void
{
int ret;

+ if (acpi_disabled)
+ return -ENODEV;
+
/* don't keep reloading if cpufreq_driver exists */
if (cpufreq_get_current_driver())
- return 0;
-
- if (acpi_disabled)
- return 0;
+ return -EEXIST;

pr_debug("acpi_cpufreq_init\n");



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