Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | From | "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <> | Subject | [PATCH v2 41/52] oprofile, nmi-timer: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration | Date | Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:28:32 +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 nmi-timer code in oprofile by using this latter form of callback registration.
Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> ---
drivers/oprofile/nmi_timer_int.c | 23 +++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/oprofile/nmi_timer_int.c b/drivers/oprofile/nmi_timer_int.c index 76f1c93..9559829 100644 --- a/drivers/oprofile/nmi_timer_int.c +++ b/drivers/oprofile/nmi_timer_int.c @@ -108,8 +108,8 @@ static void nmi_timer_shutdown(void) struct perf_event *event; int cpu; - get_online_cpus(); - unregister_cpu_notifier(&nmi_timer_cpu_nb); + cpu_notifier_register_begin(); + __unregister_cpu_notifier(&nmi_timer_cpu_nb); for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) { event = per_cpu(nmi_timer_events, cpu); if (!event) @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ static void nmi_timer_shutdown(void) perf_event_release_kernel(event); } - put_online_cpus(); + cpu_notifier_register_done(); } static int nmi_timer_setup(void) @@ -132,20 +132,23 @@ static int nmi_timer_setup(void) do_div(period, HZ); nmi_timer_attr.sample_period = period; - get_online_cpus(); - err = register_cpu_notifier(&nmi_timer_cpu_nb); + cpu_notifier_register_begin(); + err = __register_cpu_notifier(&nmi_timer_cpu_nb); if (err) goto out; + /* can't attach events to offline cpus: */ for_each_online_cpu(cpu) { err = nmi_timer_start_cpu(cpu); - if (err) - break; + if (err) { + cpu_notifier_register_done(); + nmi_timer_shutdown(); + return err; + } } - if (err) - nmi_timer_shutdown(); + out: - put_online_cpus(); + cpu_notifier_register_done(); return err; }
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