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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 10/52] arm, kvm: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
Il 14/02/2014 08:51, Srivatsa S. Bhat ha scritto:
> 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 kvm code in arm by using this latter form of callback registration.
>
> Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Cc: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu
> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>
> arch/arm/kvm/arm.c | 7 ++++++-
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
> index 1d8248e..147b917 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
> @@ -1050,21 +1050,26 @@ int kvm_arch_init(void *opaque)
> }
> }
>
> + cpu_notifier_register_begin();
> +
> err = init_hyp_mode();
> if (err)
> goto out_err;
>
> - err = register_cpu_notifier(&hyp_init_cpu_nb);
> + err = __register_cpu_notifier(&hyp_init_cpu_nb);
> if (err) {
> kvm_err("Cannot register HYP init CPU notifier (%d)\n", err);
> goto out_err;
> }
>
> + cpu_notifier_register_done();
> +
> hyp_cpu_pm_init();
>
> kvm_coproc_table_init();
> return 0;
> out_err:
> + cpu_notifier_register_done();
> return err;
> }
>
>

Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>


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