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[PATCH v3 31/52] arm64, debug-monitors: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration

From: Srivatsa S. Bhat <hidden>
Date: 2014-03-10 20:39:34
Also in: linux-arch, linux-pm, linuxppc-dev, lkml
Subsystem: arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), the rest · Maintainers: Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Linus Torvalds

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 debug-monitors code in arm64 by using this latter form of callback
registration.

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Russell King <redacted>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Acked-by: Will Deacon <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <redacted>
---

 arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c |    6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c
index 636ba8b..c985531 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c
@@ -155,12 +155,16 @@ static struct notifier_block os_lock_nb = {
 
 static int debug_monitors_init(void)
 {
+	cpu_notifier_register_begin();
+
 	/* Clear the OS lock. */
 	smp_call_function(clear_os_lock, NULL, 1);
 	clear_os_lock(NULL);
 
 	/* Register hotplug handler. */
-	register_cpu_notifier(&os_lock_nb);
+	__register_cpu_notifier(&os_lock_nb);
+
+	cpu_notifier_register_done();
 	return 0;
 }
 postcore_initcall(debug_monitors_init);
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