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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.b...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
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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