[PATCH v3 12/52] s390, smp: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration

Srivatsa S. Bhat srivatsa.bhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Mar 11 07:35:58 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 smp 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: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
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/smp.c |   13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/smp.c b/arch/s390/kernel/smp.c
index a7125b6..e10be35 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/smp.c
@@ -1057,19 +1057,24 @@ static DEVICE_ATTR(rescan, 0200, NULL, rescan_store);
 
 static int __init s390_smp_init(void)
 {
-	int cpu, rc;
+	int cpu, rc = 0;
 
-	hotcpu_notifier(smp_cpu_notify, 0);
 #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
 	rc = device_create_file(cpu_subsys.dev_root, &dev_attr_rescan);
 	if (rc)
 		return rc;
 #endif
+	cpu_notifier_register_begin();
 	for_each_present_cpu(cpu) {
 		rc = smp_add_present_cpu(cpu);
 		if (rc)
-			return rc;
+			goto out;
 	}
-	return 0;
+
+	__hotcpu_notifier(smp_cpu_notify, 0);
+
+out:
+	cpu_notifier_register_done();
+	return rc;
 }
 subsys_initcall(s390_smp_init);



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