[PATCH v2 25/52] x86, amd, uncore: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration

From: Srivatsa S. Bhat
Date: Fri Feb 14 2014 - 03:00:35 EST


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-uncore code in x86 by using this latter form of callback
registration.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd_uncore.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd_uncore.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd_uncore.c
index 754291a..3bbdf4c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd_uncore.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd_uncore.c
@@ -531,15 +531,16 @@ static int __init amd_uncore_init(void)
if (ret)
return -ENODEV;

- get_online_cpus();
+ cpu_notifier_register_begin();
+
/* init cpus already online before registering for hotplug notifier */
for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
amd_uncore_cpu_up_prepare(cpu);
smp_call_function_single(cpu, init_cpu_already_online, NULL, 1);
}

- register_cpu_notifier(&amd_uncore_cpu_notifier_block);
- put_online_cpus();
+ __register_cpu_notifier(&amd_uncore_cpu_notifier_block);
+ cpu_notifier_register_done();

return 0;
}

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