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Subject[PATCH 26/51] x86, oprofile, nmi: 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_maps_update_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_maps_update_done();


Fix the oprofile code in x86 by using this latter form of callback
registration. But retain the calls to get/put_online_cpus(), since they
also protect the variables 'nmi_enabled' and 'ctr_running'. By nesting
get/put_online_cpus() *inside* cpu_maps_update_begin/done(), we avoid
the ABBA deadlock possibility mentioned above.

Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
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/oprofile/nmi_int.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/oprofile/nmi_int.c b/arch/x86/oprofile/nmi_int.c
index 6890d84..85e5f6e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/oprofile/nmi_int.c
+++ b/arch/x86/oprofile/nmi_int.c
@@ -494,14 +494,19 @@ static int nmi_setup(void)
if (err)
goto fail;

+ cpu_maps_update_begin();
+
+ /* Use get/put_online_cpus() to protect 'nmi_enabled' */
get_online_cpus();
- register_cpu_notifier(&oprofile_cpu_nb);
nmi_enabled = 1;
/* make nmi_enabled visible to the nmi handler: */
smp_mb();
on_each_cpu(nmi_cpu_setup, NULL, 1);
+ __register_cpu_notifier(&oprofile_cpu_nb);
put_online_cpus();

+ cpu_maps_update_done();
+
return 0;
fail:
free_msrs();
@@ -512,12 +517,18 @@ static void nmi_shutdown(void)
{
struct op_msrs *msrs;

+ cpu_maps_update_begin();
+
+ /* Use get/put_online_cpus() to protect 'nmi_enabled' & 'ctr_running' */
get_online_cpus();
- unregister_cpu_notifier(&oprofile_cpu_nb);
on_each_cpu(nmi_cpu_shutdown, NULL, 1);
nmi_enabled = 0;
ctr_running = 0;
+ __unregister_cpu_notifier(&oprofile_cpu_nb);
put_online_cpus();
+
+ cpu_maps_update_done();
+
/* make variables visible to the nmi handler: */
smp_mb();
unregister_nmi_handler(NMI_LOCAL, "oprofile");


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