Thread (63 messages) 63 messages, 6 authors, 2014-03-18
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[PATCH v3 25/52] x86, amd, uncore: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration

From: Srivatsa S. Bhat <hidden>
Date: 2014-03-10 20:38:45
Also in: linux-arch, linux-pm, lkml
Subsystem: performance events subsystem, the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit) · Maintainers: Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Namhyung Kim, Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, 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 amd-uncore code in x86 by using this latter form of callback
registration.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <redacted>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <redacted>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <redacted>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <redacted>
---

 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd_uncore.c |    7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd_uncore.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd_uncore.c
index 754291a..3bbdf4c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd_uncore.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd_uncore.c
@@ -531,15 +531,16 @@ static int __init amd_uncore_init(void)
 	if (ret)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
-	get_online_cpus();
+	cpu_notifier_register_begin();
+
 	/* init cpus already online before registering for hotplug notifier */
 	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
 		amd_uncore_cpu_up_prepare(cpu);
 		smp_call_function_single(cpu, init_cpu_already_online, NULL, 1);
 	}
 
-	register_cpu_notifier(&amd_uncore_cpu_notifier_block);
-	put_online_cpus();
+	__register_cpu_notifier(&amd_uncore_cpu_notifier_block);
+	cpu_notifier_register_done();
 
 	return 0;
 }
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