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[PATCH v3 17/52] x86, vsyscall: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration

From: Srivatsa S. Bhat <hidden>
Date: 2014-03-10 20:37:09
Also in: linux-arch, linux-pm, lkml
Subsystem: the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit) · Maintainers: 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 vsyscall code in x86 by using this latter form of callback
registration.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <redacted>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <redacted>
---

 arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c |    6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
index 1f96f93..556eaf2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
@@ -393,9 +393,13 @@ static int __init vsyscall_init(void)
 {
 	BUG_ON(VSYSCALL_ADDR(0) != __fix_to_virt(VSYSCALL_FIRST_PAGE));
 
+	cpu_notifier_register_begin();
+
 	on_each_cpu(cpu_vsyscall_init, NULL, 1);
 	/* notifier priority > KVM */
-	hotcpu_notifier(cpu_vsyscall_notifier, 30);
+	__hotcpu_notifier(cpu_vsyscall_notifier, 30);
+
+	cpu_notifier_register_done();
 
 	return 0;
 }
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