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[PATCH v3 29/52] x86, kvm: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration

From: Srivatsa S. Bhat <hidden>
Date: 2014-03-10 20:39:19
Also in: kvm, linux-arch, linuxppc-dev, lkml
Subsystem: kernel virtual machine for x86 (kvm/x86), the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit) · Maintainers: Sean Christopherson, Paolo Bonzini, Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen

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

Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <redacted>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <redacted>
---

 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 2b85784..4db6f56 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -5365,7 +5365,8 @@ static void kvm_timer_init(void)
 	int cpu;
 
 	max_tsc_khz = tsc_khz;
-	register_hotcpu_notifier(&kvmclock_cpu_notifier_block);
+
+	cpu_notifier_register_begin();
 	if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC)) {
 #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_FREQ
 		struct cpufreq_policy policy;
@@ -5382,6 +5383,10 @@ static void kvm_timer_init(void)
 	pr_debug("kvm: max_tsc_khz = %ld\n", max_tsc_khz);
 	for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
 		smp_call_function_single(cpu, tsc_khz_changed, NULL, 1);
+
+	__register_hotcpu_notifier(&kvmclock_cpu_notifier_block);
+	cpu_notifier_register_done();
+
 }
 
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kvm_vcpu *, current_vcpu);
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