[PATCH v5 6/6] PM: EM: Use scope-based cleanup helper
Rafael J. Wysocki
rafael at kernel.org
Sat Sep 6 05:46:43 AEST 2025
On Fri, Sep 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM Zihuan Zhang <zhangzihuan at kylinos.cn> wrote:
>
> Replace the manual cpufreq_cpu_put() with __free(put_cpufreq_policy)
> annotation for policy references. This reduces the risk of reference
> counting mistakes and aligns the code with the latest kernel style.
>
> No functional change intended.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zihuan Zhang <zhangzihuan at kylinos.cn>
> ---
> kernel/power/energy_model.c | 9 ++-------
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/power/energy_model.c b/kernel/power/energy_model.c
> index ea7995a25780..5ec63b3e7d85 100644
> --- a/kernel/power/energy_model.c
> +++ b/kernel/power/energy_model.c
> @@ -451,7 +451,6 @@ static void
> em_cpufreq_update_efficiencies(struct device *dev, struct em_perf_state *table)
> {
> struct em_perf_domain *pd = dev->em_pd;
> - struct cpufreq_policy *policy;
> int found = 0;
> int i, cpu;
>
> @@ -465,7 +464,7 @@ em_cpufreq_update_efficiencies(struct device *dev, struct em_perf_state *table)
> return;
> }
>
> - policy = cpufreq_cpu_get(cpu);
> + struct cpufreq_policy *policy __free(put_cpufreq_policy) = cpufreq_cpu_get(cpu);
> if (!policy) {
> dev_warn(dev, "EM: Access to CPUFreq policy failed\n");
> return;
> @@ -479,8 +478,6 @@ em_cpufreq_update_efficiencies(struct device *dev, struct em_perf_state *table)
> found++;
> }
>
> - cpufreq_cpu_put(policy);
> -
> if (!found)
> return;
>
The above changes are fine now and can be a separate patch.
> @@ -787,21 +784,19 @@ static void em_check_capacity_update(void)
>
> /* Check if CPUs capacity has changed than update EM */
> for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
But I'd prefer the code in this loop to be moved into a separate
function, in a separate patch, before the __free()-based
simplification of it.
> - struct cpufreq_policy *policy;
> struct em_perf_domain *pd;
> struct device *dev;
>
> if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, cpu_done_mask))
> continue;
>
> - policy = cpufreq_cpu_get(cpu);
> + struct cpufreq_policy *policy __free(put_cpufreq_policy) = cpufreq_cpu_get(cpu);
> if (!policy) {
> pr_debug("Accessing cpu%d policy failed\n", cpu);
> schedule_delayed_work(&em_update_work,
> msecs_to_jiffies(1000));
> break;
> }
> - cpufreq_cpu_put(policy);
>
> dev = get_cpu_device(cpu);
> pd = em_pd_get(dev);
> --
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