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[PATCH v3 38/52] drivers/base/topology.c: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration

From: Srivatsa S. Bhat <hidden>
Date: 2014-03-10 20:40:32
Also in: linux-arch, linuxppc-dev, lkml
Subsystem: driver core, kobjects, debugfs and sysfs, the rest · Maintainers: Greg Kroah-Hartman, "Rafael J. Wysocki", Danilo Krummrich, 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 topology code by using this latter form of callback registration.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <redacted>
---

 drivers/base/topology.c |   12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/topology.c b/drivers/base/topology.c
index 94ffee3..a738d10 100644
--- a/drivers/base/topology.c
+++ b/drivers/base/topology.c
@@ -161,16 +161,20 @@ static int topology_cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb,
 static int topology_sysfs_init(void)
 {
 	int cpu;
-	int rc;
+	int rc = 0;
+
+	cpu_notifier_register_begin();
 
 	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
 		rc = topology_add_dev(cpu);
 		if (rc)
-			return rc;
+			goto out;
 	}
-	hotcpu_notifier(topology_cpu_callback, 0);
+	__hotcpu_notifier(topology_cpu_callback, 0);
 
-	return 0;
+out:
+	cpu_notifier_register_done();
+	return rc;
 }
 
 device_initcall(topology_sysfs_init);
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