[PATCH v2 08/52] ia64, err-inject: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration

From: Srivatsa S. Bhat
Date: Fri Feb 14 2014 - 02:56:43 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 error injection code in ia64 by using this latter form of callback
registration.

Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-ia64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

arch/ia64/kernel/err_inject.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/err_inject.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/err_inject.c
index f59c0b8..0c161ed 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/err_inject.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/err_inject.c
@@ -269,12 +269,17 @@ err_inject_init(void)
#ifdef ERR_INJ_DEBUG
printk(KERN_INFO "Enter error injection driver.\n");
#endif
+
+ cpu_notifier_register_begin();
+
for_each_online_cpu(i) {
err_inject_cpu_callback(&err_inject_cpu_notifier, CPU_ONLINE,
(void *)(long)i);
}

- register_hotcpu_notifier(&err_inject_cpu_notifier);
+ __register_hotcpu_notifier(&err_inject_cpu_notifier);
+
+ cpu_notifier_register_done();

return 0;
}
@@ -288,11 +293,17 @@ err_inject_exit(void)
#ifdef ERR_INJ_DEBUG
printk(KERN_INFO "Exit error injection driver.\n");
#endif
+
+ cpu_notifier_register_begin();
+
for_each_online_cpu(i) {
sys_dev = get_cpu_device(i);
sysfs_remove_group(&sys_dev->kobj, &err_inject_attr_group);
}
- unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&err_inject_cpu_notifier);
+
+ __unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&err_inject_cpu_notifier);
+
+ cpu_notifier_register_done();
}

module_init(err_inject_init);

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