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

Message ID 20140310204012.10746.6803.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
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Srivatsa S. Bhat March 10, 2014, 8:40 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 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 <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---

 drivers/base/topology.c |   12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)


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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);