[PATCH v3 24/52] x86, intel, rapl: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration

Srivatsa S. Bhat srivatsa.bhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Mar 11 07:38:09 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 intel rapl 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_intel_rapl.c |    9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_rapl.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_rapl.c
index 5ad35ad..059218e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_rapl.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_rapl.c
@@ -646,19 +646,20 @@ static int __init rapl_pmu_init(void)
 		/* unsupported */
 		return 0;
 	}
-	get_online_cpus();
+
+	cpu_notifier_register_begin();
 
 	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
 		rapl_cpu_prepare(cpu);
 		rapl_cpu_init(cpu);
 	}
 
-	perf_cpu_notifier(rapl_cpu_notifier);
+	__perf_cpu_notifier(rapl_cpu_notifier);
 
 	ret = perf_pmu_register(&rapl_pmu_class, "power", -1);
 	if (WARN_ON(ret)) {
 		pr_info("RAPL PMU detected, registration failed (%d), RAPL PMU disabled\n", ret);
-		put_online_cpus();
+		cpu_notifier_register_done();
 		return -1;
 	}
 
@@ -672,7 +673,7 @@ static int __init rapl_pmu_init(void)
 		hweight32(rapl_cntr_mask),
 		ktime_to_ms(pmu->timer_interval));
 
-	put_online_cpus();
+	cpu_notifier_register_done();
 
 	return 0;
 }



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