| From | "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <> | Subject | [PATCH v2 17/52] x86, vsyscall: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration | Date | Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:22:58 +0530 |
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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 vsyscall code in x86 by using this latter form of callback registration.
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: x86@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> ---
arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c index 1f96f93..556eaf2 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c @@ -393,9 +393,13 @@ static int __init vsyscall_init(void) { BUG_ON(VSYSCALL_ADDR(0) != __fix_to_virt(VSYSCALL_FIRST_PAGE)); + cpu_notifier_register_begin(); + on_each_cpu(cpu_vsyscall_init, NULL, 1); /* notifier priority > KVM */ - hotcpu_notifier(cpu_vsyscall_notifier, 30); + __hotcpu_notifier(cpu_vsyscall_notifier, 30); + + cpu_notifier_register_done(); return 0; }
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