[PATCH v3 18/52] x86, intel, uncore: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration

Srivatsa S. Bhat srivatsa.bhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Mar 11 07:36:57 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 uncore code in intel-x86 by using this latter form of callback
registration.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme at ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
Cc: x86 at kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---

 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.c
index c88f7f4..e90183d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.c
@@ -3816,7 +3816,7 @@ static int __init uncore_cpu_init(void)
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
-	get_online_cpus();
+	cpu_notifier_register_begin();
 
 	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
 		int i, phys_id = topology_physical_package_id(cpu);
@@ -3835,9 +3835,9 @@ static int __init uncore_cpu_init(void)
 	}
 	on_each_cpu(uncore_cpu_setup, NULL, 1);
 
-	register_cpu_notifier(&uncore_cpu_nb);
+	__register_cpu_notifier(&uncore_cpu_nb);
 
-	put_online_cpus();
+	cpu_notifier_register_done();
 
 	return 0;
 }



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