[PATCH v3 40/52] intel-idle: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration

Srivatsa S. Bhat srivatsa.bhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Mar 11 07:40:30 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-idle code by using this latter form of callback registration.

Cc: Len Brown <lenb at kernel.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw at rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Cc: linux-pm at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---

 drivers/idle/intel_idle.c |   12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c b/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c
index 8e1939f..51493ed 100644
--- a/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c
+++ b/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c
@@ -681,14 +681,19 @@ static int __init intel_idle_init(void)
 	if (intel_idle_cpuidle_devices == NULL)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
+	cpu_notifier_register_begin();
+
 	for_each_online_cpu(i) {
 		retval = intel_idle_cpu_init(i);
 		if (retval) {
+			cpu_notifier_register_done();
 			cpuidle_unregister_driver(&intel_idle_driver);
 			return retval;
 		}
 	}
-	register_cpu_notifier(&cpu_hotplug_notifier);
+	__register_cpu_notifier(&cpu_hotplug_notifier);
+
+	cpu_notifier_register_done();
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -698,10 +703,13 @@ static void __exit intel_idle_exit(void)
 	intel_idle_cpuidle_devices_uninit();
 	cpuidle_unregister_driver(&intel_idle_driver);
 
+	cpu_notifier_register_begin();
 
 	if (lapic_timer_reliable_states != LAPIC_TIMER_ALWAYS_RELIABLE)
 		on_each_cpu(__setup_broadcast_timer, (void *)false, 1);
-	unregister_cpu_notifier(&cpu_hotplug_notifier);
+	__unregister_cpu_notifier(&cpu_hotplug_notifier);
+
+	cpu_notifier_register_done();
 
 	return;
 }



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