[RFC PATCH 0/4] clockevents: fix clockevent_devices list corruption after cpu hotplug

[Xiaotian Feng]

I've met a list_del corruption, which was reported in
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/27/45. But no response, so I try to debug it
by myself.

After I added some printks to show all elements in clockevent_devices, I
found kernel hangs when I tried to resume from s2ram.

In clockevents_register_device, clockevents_do_notify ADD is always followed
by clockevents_notify_released. Although clockevents_do_notify ADD will use
tick_check_new_device to add new devices and replace old devices to the
clockevents_released list, clockevents_notify_released add them back to
clockevent_devices list.

My system is Quad-Core x86_64, with apic and hpet enables, after boot up,
the elements in clockevent_devices list is :
clockevent_device->lapic(3)->hpet5(3)->lapic(2)->hpet4(2)->lapic(1)->hpet3(1)-
  ->lapic(0)->hpet2(0)->hpet(0)
* () means cpu id

But active clock_event_device is hpet2,hpet3,hpet4,hpet5. Then at s2ram stage,
cpu 1,2,3 is down, then notify CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_CPU_DEAD will calls tick_shutdown,
then hpet2,hpet3,hpet4,hpet5 was deleted from clockevent_device list.
So after s2ram, elements in clockevent_device list is:
clockevent_device->lapic(3)->lapic(2)->lapic(1)->lapic(0)->hpet2(0)->hpet(0)

Then at resume stage, cpu 1,2,3 is up, it will register lapic again, and then
perform list_add lapic on clockevent_device list, e.g. list_add lapic(1) on
above list, lapic will move to the clockevent_device->next, but lapic(2)->next
is still point to lapic(1), the list is circular and corrupted then. 

This patchset aims to fixes above behaviour by:
       - on clockevents_register_device, if notify ADD success, move new devices
         to the clockevent_devices list, otherwise move to clockevents_released
         list.
       - on clockevents_notify_released, same behaviour as above.
       - on clockevents_notify CPU_DEAD, remove related devices on dead cpu from
         clockevents_released list.

It makes sure that only active devices on each cpu is on clockevent_devices list.
With this patchset, the list_del corruption disappeared, and suspend/resume, cpu
hotplug works fine on my system. 
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