[PATCH v3 11/52] s390, cacheinfo: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration

From: Srivatsa S. Bhat
Date: Mon Mar 10 2014 - 16:56:53 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 cacheinfo code in s390 by using this latter form of callback
registration.

Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-s390@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

arch/s390/kernel/cache.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/cache.c b/arch/s390/kernel/cache.c
index 3a414c0..c0b03c2 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/cache.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/cache.c
@@ -378,9 +378,12 @@ static int __init cache_init(void)
if (!test_facility(34))
return 0;
cache_build_info();
+
+ cpu_notifier_register_begin();
for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
cache_add_cpu(cpu);
- hotcpu_notifier(cache_hotplug, 0);
+ __hotcpu_notifier(cache_hotplug, 0);
+ cpu_notifier_register_done();
return 0;
}
device_initcall(cache_init);

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