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 palinfo code in ia64 by using this latter form of callback
registration.
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.l...@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua...@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-i...@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.b...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
arch/ia64/kernel/palinfo.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/palinfo.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/palinfo.c
index ab33328..c39c3cd 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/palinfo.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/palinfo.c
@@ -996,13 +996,17 @@ palinfo_init(void)
if (!palinfo_dir)
return -ENOMEM;
+ cpu_notifier_register_begin();
+
/* Create palinfo dirs in /proc for all online cpus */
for_each_online_cpu(i) {
create_palinfo_proc_entries(i);
}
/* Register for future delivery via notify registration */
- register_hotcpu_notifier(&palinfo_cpu_notifier);
+ __register_hotcpu_notifier(&palinfo_cpu_notifier);
+
+ cpu_notifier_register_done();
return 0;
}
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