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 hpet code in x86 by using this latter form of callback registration.
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com>
Cc: x...@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.b...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
index da85a8e..d89382b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
@@ -943,12 +943,14 @@ static __init int hpet_late_init(void)
if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_ARAT))
return 0;
+ cpu_notifier_register_begin();
for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
hpet_cpuhp_notify(NULL, CPU_ONLINE, (void *)(long)cpu);
}
/* This notifier should be called after workqueue is ready */
- hotcpu_notifier(hpet_cpuhp_notify, -20);
+ __hotcpu_notifier(hpet_cpuhp_notify, -20);
+ cpu_notifier_register_done();
return 0;
}
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