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ia64, err-inject: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
authorSrivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:35:10 +0000 (02:05 +0530)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:43:41 +0000 (13:43 +0100)
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 error injection code in ia64 by using this latter form of callback
registration.

Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
arch/ia64/kernel/err_inject.c

index f59c0b844e8855ea55989ad6b814fad125b45879..0c161ed6d18e6d77433c8bafabfdd48f904a077d 100644 (file)
@@ -269,12 +269,17 @@ err_inject_init(void)
 #ifdef ERR_INJ_DEBUG
        printk(KERN_INFO "Enter error injection driver.\n");
 #endif
+
+       cpu_notifier_register_begin();
+
        for_each_online_cpu(i) {
                err_inject_cpu_callback(&err_inject_cpu_notifier, CPU_ONLINE,
                                (void *)(long)i);
        }
 
-       register_hotcpu_notifier(&err_inject_cpu_notifier);
+       __register_hotcpu_notifier(&err_inject_cpu_notifier);
+
+       cpu_notifier_register_done();
 
        return 0;
 }
@@ -288,11 +293,17 @@ err_inject_exit(void)
 #ifdef ERR_INJ_DEBUG
        printk(KERN_INFO "Exit error injection driver.\n");
 #endif
+
+       cpu_notifier_register_begin();
+
        for_each_online_cpu(i) {
                sys_dev = get_cpu_device(i);
                sysfs_remove_group(&sys_dev->kobj, &err_inject_attr_group);
        }
-       unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&err_inject_cpu_notifier);
+
+       __unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&err_inject_cpu_notifier);
+
+       cpu_notifier_register_done();
 }
 
 module_init(err_inject_init);