[PATCH 30/51] powercap,intel-rapl: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration

From: Srivatsa S. Bhat
Date: Wed Feb 05 2014 - 17:15:46 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_maps_update_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_maps_update_done();


Fix the intel-rapl code in the powercap driver by using this latter form
of callback registration. But retain the calls to get/put_online_cpus(),
since they also protect the function rapl_cleanup_data(). By nesting
get/put_online_cpus() *inside* cpu_maps_update_begin/done(), we avoid
the ABBA deadlock possibility mentioned above.

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

drivers/powercap/intel_rapl.c | 10 ++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/powercap/intel_rapl.c b/drivers/powercap/intel_rapl.c
index 3c67683..b460d46 100644
--- a/drivers/powercap/intel_rapl.c
+++ b/drivers/powercap/intel_rapl.c
@@ -1369,6 +1369,9 @@ static int __init rapl_init(void)

return -ENODEV;
}
+
+ cpu_maps_update_begin();
+
/* prevent CPU hotplug during detection */
get_online_cpus();
ret = rapl_detect_topology();
@@ -1380,20 +1383,23 @@ static int __init rapl_init(void)
ret = -ENODEV;
goto done;
}
- register_hotcpu_notifier(&rapl_cpu_notifier);
+ __register_hotcpu_notifier(&rapl_cpu_notifier);
done:
put_online_cpus();
+ cpu_maps_update_done();

return ret;
}

static void __exit rapl_exit(void)
{
+ cpu_maps_update_begin();
get_online_cpus();
- unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&rapl_cpu_notifier);
+ __unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&rapl_cpu_notifier);
rapl_unregister_powercap();
rapl_cleanup_data();
put_online_cpus();
+ cpu_maps_update_done();
}

module_init(rapl_init);

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