Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | From | "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <> | Subject | [PATCH v2 19/52] x86, mce: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration | Date | Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:23:34 +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 mce code in x86 by using this latter form of callback registration.
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: linux-edac@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> ---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c index 4d5419b..9b7734b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c @@ -2434,14 +2434,18 @@ static __init int mcheck_init_device(void) if (err) return err; + cpu_notifier_register_begin(); for_each_online_cpu(i) { err = mce_device_create(i); - if (err) + if (err) { + cpu_notifier_register_done(); return err; + } } register_syscore_ops(&mce_syscore_ops); - register_hotcpu_notifier(&mce_cpu_notifier); + __register_hotcpu_notifier(&mce_cpu_notifier); + cpu_notifier_register_done(); /* register character device /dev/mcelog */ misc_register(&mce_chrdev_device);
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