[PATCH v2 09/52] arm, hw-breakpoint: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration

From: Srivatsa S. Bhat
Date: Fri Feb 14 2014 - 02:57:13 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 hw-breakpoint code in arm by using this latter form of callback
registration.

Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
index 3d44660..3702de8 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
@@ -1072,6 +1072,8 @@ static int __init arch_hw_breakpoint_init(void)
core_num_brps = get_num_brps();
core_num_wrps = get_num_wrps();

+ cpu_notifier_register_begin();
+
/*
* We need to tread carefully here because DBGSWENABLE may be
* driven low on this core and there isn't an architected way to
@@ -1088,6 +1090,7 @@ static int __init arch_hw_breakpoint_init(void)
if (!cpumask_empty(&debug_err_mask)) {
core_num_brps = 0;
core_num_wrps = 0;
+ cpu_notifier_register_done();
return 0;
}

@@ -1107,7 +1110,10 @@ static int __init arch_hw_breakpoint_init(void)
TRAP_HWBKPT, "breakpoint debug exception");

/* Register hotplug and PM notifiers. */
- register_cpu_notifier(&dbg_reset_nb);
+ __register_cpu_notifier(&dbg_reset_nb);
+
+ cpu_notifier_register_done();
+
pm_init();
return 0;
}

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