[PATCH v3 27/52] x86, pci, amd-bus: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration

Srivatsa S. Bhat srivatsa.bhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Mar 11 07:38:43 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-bus code in x86 by using this latter form of callback
registration.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
Cc: x86 at kernel.org
Cc: linux-pci at vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---

 arch/x86/pci/amd_bus.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/pci/amd_bus.c b/arch/x86/pci/amd_bus.c
index a48be98..f05cbf0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/pci/amd_bus.c
+++ b/arch/x86/pci/amd_bus.c
@@ -380,10 +380,13 @@ static int __init pci_io_ecs_init(void)
 	if (early_pci_allowed())
 		pci_enable_pci_io_ecs();
 
-	register_cpu_notifier(&amd_cpu_notifier);
+	cpu_notifier_register_begin();
 	for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
 		amd_cpu_notify(&amd_cpu_notifier, (unsigned long)CPU_ONLINE,
 			       (void *)(long)cpu);
+	__register_cpu_notifier(&amd_cpu_notifier);
+	cpu_notifier_register_done();
+
 	pci_probe |= PCI_HAS_IO_ECS;
 
 	return 0;



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