On Wednesday, June 12, 2013 03:08:48 PM Daniel Lezcano wrote:
The governors are defined as module in the code, but the Kconfig options do not allow to compile them as module. This is not really a problem but the init order is: the cpuidle init functions (framework and driver) and then the governors. That leads to some weirdness in the cpuidle framework because the function cpuidle_register_device calls cpuidle_enable_device which in turns fails at the first attempt because no governor is registered. When the governor is registered, the framework calls cpuidle_enable_device again which will invoke the __cpuidle_register_device function. Of course, in order to make this to work, the return code of cpuidle_enable_device is not checked by the caller in cpuidle_register_device.
Instead of having this cyclic call graph and relying on a positive side effect of the hackish back and forth call to cpuidle_enable_device, let's fix the init order for the governor in order to clean up the cpuidle_enable_device function.
Remove the module init code and replaced it with postcore_initcall, so we have:
- cpuidle framework : core_initcall
- cpuidle governors : postcore_initcall
- cpuidle drivers : device_initcall
Remove exit module code as it is dead code (governors aren't compiled as module).
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
That's something I'd like to receive much earlier in the cycle (around -rc2).
Honestly, I'm not sure if it's going to make it into 3.11 even if nobody has any comments.
Thanks, Rafael
drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c | 12 +----------- drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c | 12 +----------- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c b/drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c index 9b78405..9f08e8c 100644 --- a/drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c @@ -192,14 +192,4 @@ static int __init init_ladder(void) return cpuidle_register_governor(&ladder_governor); } -/**
- exit_ladder - exits the governor
- */
-static void __exit exit_ladder(void) -{
- cpuidle_unregister_governor(&ladder_governor);
-}
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); -module_init(init_ladder); -module_exit(exit_ladder); +postcore_initcall(init_ladder); diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c b/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c index fe343a0..743138c 100644 --- a/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c @@ -540,14 +540,4 @@ static int __init init_menu(void) return cpuidle_register_governor(&menu_governor); } -/**
- exit_menu - exits the governor
- */
-static void __exit exit_menu(void) -{
- cpuidle_unregister_governor(&menu_governor);
-}
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); -module_init(init_menu); -module_exit(exit_menu); +postcore_initcall(init_menu);