Re: [PATCH v2 10/52] arm, kvm: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Fri Feb 14 2014 - 05:31:23 EST


Il 14/02/2014 08:51, Srivatsa S. Bhat ha scritto:
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 kvm code in arm by using this latter form of callback registration.

Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

arch/arm/kvm/arm.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
index 1d8248e..147b917 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
@@ -1050,21 +1050,26 @@ int kvm_arch_init(void *opaque)
}
}

+ cpu_notifier_register_begin();
+
err = init_hyp_mode();
if (err)
goto out_err;

- err = register_cpu_notifier(&hyp_init_cpu_nb);
+ err = __register_cpu_notifier(&hyp_init_cpu_nb);
if (err) {
kvm_err("Cannot register HYP init CPU notifier (%d)\n", err);
goto out_err;
}

+ cpu_notifier_register_done();
+
hyp_cpu_pm_init();

kvm_coproc_table_init();
return 0;
out_err:
+ cpu_notifier_register_done();
return err;
}



Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
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