Re: [PATCH] arm, kvm: fix double lock on cpu_add_remove_lock

[Srivatsa S. Bhat]

On 04/06/2014 11:06 PM, Ming Lei wrote:
> The patch of "arm, kvm: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration"
> in -next tree holds the lock before calling the two functions:
> 
> 	kvm_vgic_hyp_init()
> 	kvm_timer_hyp_init()
> 
> and both the two functions are calling register_cpu_notifier()
> to register cpu notifier, so cause double lock on cpu_add_remove_lock.
> 
> Considered that both two functions are only called inside
> kvm_arch_init() with holding cpu_add_remove_lock, so simply use
> __register_cpu_notifier() to fix the problem.
> 
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@xxxxxxxxx>

Sorry for missing that, and thank you for the fix!

Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Regards,
Srivatsa S. Bhat

> ---
>  virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c |    2 +-
>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c       |    2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c b/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
> index 5081e80..22fa819 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
> @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ int kvm_timer_hyp_init(void)
> 
>  	host_vtimer_irq = ppi;
> 
> -	err = register_cpu_notifier(&kvm_timer_cpu_nb);
> +	err = __register_cpu_notifier(&kvm_timer_cpu_nb);
>  	if (err) {
>  		kvm_err("Cannot register timer CPU notifier\n");
>  		goto out_free;
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c
> index 8ca405c..47b2983 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c
> @@ -1496,7 +1496,7 @@ int kvm_vgic_hyp_init(void)
>  		goto out;
>  	}
> 
> -	ret = register_cpu_notifier(&vgic_cpu_nb);
> +	ret = __register_cpu_notifier(&vgic_cpu_nb);
>  	if (ret) {
>  		kvm_err("Cannot register vgic CPU notifier\n");
>  		goto out_free_irq;
> 

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