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Subject[PATCH v2 49/52] mm, vmstat: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
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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 vmstat code in the MM subsystem by using this latter form of callback
registration.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---

mm/vmstat.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index 7249614..12a553e 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -1290,14 +1290,14 @@ static int __init setup_vmstat(void)
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
int cpu;

- register_cpu_notifier(&vmstat_notifier);
+ cpu_notifier_register_begin();
+ __register_cpu_notifier(&vmstat_notifier);

- get_online_cpus();
for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
start_cpu_timer(cpu);
node_set_state(cpu_to_node(cpu), N_CPU);
}
- put_online_cpus();
+ cpu_notifier_register_done();
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
proc_create("buddyinfo", S_IRUGO, NULL, &fragmentation_file_operations);


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