Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | From | "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <> | Subject | [PATCH v2 49/52] mm, vmstat: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration | Date | Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:30:18 +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 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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