[PATCH v3 11/52] s390, cacheinfo: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration

Srivatsa S. Bhat srivatsa.bhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Mar 11 07:35:46 EST 2014


Subsystems that want to register CPU hotplug callbacks, as well as perform
initialization for the CPUs that are already online, often do it as shown
below:

	get_online_cpus();

	for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
		init_cpu(cpu);

	register_cpu_notifier(&foobar_cpu_notifier);

	put_online_cpus();

This is wrong, since it is prone to ABBA deadlocks involving the
cpu_add_remove_lock and the cpu_hotplug.lock (when running concurrently
with CPU hotplug operations).

Instead, the correct and race-free way of performing the callback
registration is:

	cpu_notifier_register_begin();

	for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
		init_cpu(cpu);

	/* Note the use of the double underscored version of the API */
	__register_cpu_notifier(&foobar_cpu_notifier);

	cpu_notifier_register_done();


Fix the cacheinfo code in s390 by using this latter form of callback
registration.

Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky at de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens at de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Cc: linux-s390 at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---

 arch/s390/kernel/cache.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/cache.c b/arch/s390/kernel/cache.c
index 3a414c0..c0b03c2 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/cache.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/cache.c
@@ -378,9 +378,12 @@ static int __init cache_init(void)
 	if (!test_facility(34))
 		return 0;
 	cache_build_info();
+
+	cpu_notifier_register_begin();
 	for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
 		cache_add_cpu(cpu);
-	hotcpu_notifier(cache_hotplug, 0);
+	__hotcpu_notifier(cache_hotplug, 0);
+	cpu_notifier_register_done();
 	return 0;
 }
 device_initcall(cache_init);



More information about the Linuxppc-dev mailing list