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In drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c the function cpufreq_add_dev() takes the
error exit 'err_out_unregister' from different places once with the
'cpu_policy_rwsem' lock held, once with the lock released:
|		if (ret)
|			goto err_out_unregister;
|	}
|
|	policy->governor = NULL; /* to assure that the starting sequence is
|				  * run in cpufreq_set_policy */
|
|	/* set default policy */
|	ret = __cpufreq_set_policy(policy, &new_policy);
|	policy->user_policy.policy = policy->policy;
|	policy->user_policy.governor = policy->governor;
|
|	unlock_policy_rwsem_write(cpu);
|
|	if (ret) {
|		dprintk("setting policy failed\n");
|		goto err_out_unregister;
|	}

This leads to the following error message in case of a failing
__cpufreq_set_policy() call:
=====================================
[ BUG: bad unlock balance detected! ]
-------------------------------------
swapper/1 is trying to release lock (&per_cpu(cpu_policy_rwsem, cpu)) at:
[<c01b4564>] unlock_policy_rwsem_write+0x30/0x40
but there are no more locks to release!

other info that might help us debug this:
1 lock held by swapper/1:
 #0:  (sysdev_drivers_lock){--..}, at: [<c018fd18>] sysdev_driver_register+0x74/0x130

stack backtrace:
[<c002f588>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x14) from [<c00692fc>] (print_unlock_inbalance_bug+0xc8/0x104)
[<c0069234>] (print_unlock_inbalance_bug+0x0/0x104) from [<c006b7ac>] (lock_release_non_nested+0xc4/0x19c)
 r6:00000028 r5:c3c1ab80 r4:c01b4564
[<c006b6e8>] (lock_release_non_nested+0x0/0x19c) from [<c006b9e0>] (lock_release+0x15c/0x18c)
 r8:60000013 r7:00000001 r6:c01b4564 r5:c0541bb4 r4:c3c1ab80
[<c006b884>] (lock_release+0x0/0x18c) from [<c0061ba0>] (up_write+0x24/0x30)
 r8:c0541b80 r7:00000000 r6:ffffffea r5:c3c34828 r4:c0541b8c
[<c0061b7c>] (up_write+0x0/0x30) from [<c01b4564>] (unlock_policy_rwsem_write+0x30/0x40)
 r4:c3c34884
[<c01b4534>] (unlock_policy_rwsem_write+0x0/0x40) from [<c01b4c40>] (cpufreq_add_dev+0x324/0x398)
[<c01b491c>] (cpufreq_add_dev+0x0/0x398) from [<c018fd64>] (sysdev_driver_register+0xc0/0x130)
[<c018fca4>] (sysdev_driver_register+0x0/0x130) from [<c01b3574>] (cpufreq_register_driver+0xbc/0x174)
Signed-off-by: Lothar Waßmann <LW@KARO-electronics.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>