[PATCH v3 22/52] x86, amd, ibs: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration

Srivatsa S. Bhat srivatsa.bhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Mar 11 07:37:45 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 amd-ibs code in 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_amd_ibs.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd_ibs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd_ibs.c
index 4b8e4d3..4c36bbe 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd_ibs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd_ibs.c
@@ -926,13 +926,13 @@ static __init int amd_ibs_init(void)
 		goto out;
 
 	perf_ibs_pm_init();
-	get_online_cpus();
+	cpu_notifier_register_begin();
 	ibs_caps = caps;
 	/* make ibs_caps visible to other cpus: */
 	smp_mb();
-	perf_cpu_notifier(perf_ibs_cpu_notifier);
 	smp_call_function(setup_APIC_ibs, NULL, 1);
-	put_online_cpus();
+	__perf_cpu_notifier(perf_ibs_cpu_notifier);
+	cpu_notifier_register_done();
 
 	ret = perf_event_ibs_init();
 out:



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