[PATCH v2 19/52] x86, mce: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration

[Srivatsa S. Bhat]

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 mce code in x86 by using this latter form of callback registration.

Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-edac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c |    8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
index 4d5419b..9b7734b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -2434,14 +2434,18 @@ static __init int mcheck_init_device(void)
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
+	cpu_notifier_register_begin();
 	for_each_online_cpu(i) {
 		err = mce_device_create(i);
-		if (err)
+		if (err) {
+			cpu_notifier_register_done();
 			return err;
+		}
 	}
 
 	register_syscore_ops(&mce_syscore_ops);
-	register_hotcpu_notifier(&mce_cpu_notifier);
+	__register_hotcpu_notifier(&mce_cpu_notifier);
+	cpu_notifier_register_done();
 
 	/* register character device /dev/mcelog */
 	misc_register(&mce_chrdev_device);

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