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[v3,31/52] arm64, debug-monitors: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration

Message ID 20140310203919.10746.1234.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Srivatsa S. Bhat March 10, 2014, 8:39 p.m. UTC 
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 debug-monitors code in arm64 by using this latter form of callback
registration.

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---

 arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c |    6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c
index 636ba8b..c985531 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c
@@ -155,12 +155,16 @@  static struct notifier_block os_lock_nb = {
 
 static int debug_monitors_init(void)
 {
+	cpu_notifier_register_begin();
+
 	/* Clear the OS lock. */
 	smp_call_function(clear_os_lock, NULL, 1);
 	clear_os_lock(NULL);
 
 	/* Register hotplug handler. */
-	register_cpu_notifier(&os_lock_nb);
+	__register_cpu_notifier(&os_lock_nb);
+
+	cpu_notifier_register_done();
 	return 0;
 }
 postcore_initcall(debug_monitors_init);