[PATCH v3 14/52] powerpc, sysfs: 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 sysfs code in powerpc by using this latter form of callback
registration.

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Wang Dongsheng <dongsheng.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Acked-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

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

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c
index 97e1dc9..d90d4b7 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c
@@ -975,7 +975,8 @@ static int __init topology_init(void)
 	int cpu;
 
 	register_nodes();
-	register_cpu_notifier(&sysfs_cpu_nb);
+
+	cpu_notifier_register_begin();
 
 	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
 		struct cpu *c = &per_cpu(cpu_devices, cpu);
@@ -999,6 +1000,11 @@ static int __init topology_init(void)
 		if (cpu_online(cpu))
 			register_cpu_online(cpu);
 	}
+
+	__register_cpu_notifier(&sysfs_cpu_nb);
+
+	cpu_notifier_register_done();
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
 	sysfs_create_dscr_default();
 #endif /* CONFIG_PPC64 */

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