Re: [Patch-next] Trival fixes in thermal_throttle_add_dev().

From: Fenghua Yu
Date: Mon Aug 30 2010 - 21:12:26 EST


On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 05:55:48PM -0700, Jin Dongming wrote:
> This patch fixed the following two problems.
> 1. When the feature PTS is not supported by CPU, the sysfile
> package_power_limit_count for package should not be generated.
> 2. No matter whether a sysfile is failed to be created or not,
> the next one will be created.
>
> As the resolving methods:
> 1. Add missing { and } after checking PTS feature.
> 2. Fix the error handling.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jin Dongming <jin.dongming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
> 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c
> index d9368ee..79d563a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c
> @@ -216,14 +216,27 @@ static __cpuinit int thermal_throttle_add_dev(struct sys_device *sys_dev,
> err = sysfs_add_file_to_group(&sys_dev->kobj,
> &attr_core_power_limit_count.attr,
> thermal_attr_group.name);
> - if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_PTS))
> + if (err)
> + goto error;
> +
> + if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_PTS)) {
> err = sysfs_add_file_to_group(&sys_dev->kobj,
> &attr_package_throttle_count.attr,
> thermal_attr_group.name);
> + if (err)
> + goto error;
> +
> if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_PLN))
> err = sysfs_add_file_to_group(&sys_dev->kobj,
> &attr_package_power_limit_count.attr,
> thermal_attr_group.name);
> + if (err)
> + goto error;
> + }
> +
> + return 0;
> +error:
> + sysfs_remove_group(&sys_dev->kobj, &thermal_attr_group);
>
> return err;
> }

This fix is incorrect. In this patch, a previous error prevents from adding any
further devices. There shouldn't be such dependency among the devices.

Thanks.

-Fenghua
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