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SubjectRe: [PATCH 5/5] perf/arm_dsu: Fix CPU hotplug races
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Hi Suzuki,

On 05/02/2019 11:40, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> On 04/02/2019 17:09, Robin Murphy wrote:
>> Like other system PMUs which associate themselves with an arbitrary CPU
>> for housekeeping purposes, arm_dsu has a race between registering the
>> hotplug notifier and registering the PMU device, such that the hotplug
>> niotifier can potentially fire and attempt to migrate the PMU context
>> before the latter is valid. This is easily resolved by inhibiting
>> hotplug until both the notifier and PMU device are successfully set up.
>>
>> For the same reason, also suppress any synchronous notifier calls in the
>> cleanup path if PMU registration fails.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
>
> Should we add :
>
> Fixes: commit 7520fa99246dade7ab6 ("perf: ARM DynamIQ Shared Unit PMU
> support")
>
> Either way:
>
> Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>

Thanks for the reviews! I think this patch is worthwhile for cleanliness
and consistency, but since it's neither self-contained (with the
dependency on #4) nor "fix[ing] a real bug that bothers people" I'm not
convinced it really deserves backporting - unlike the preemption issue,
actually getting a crash from this race in practice is unlikely enough
that it would probably require some determined, deliberate effort to
trigger it with just the right conditions.

Cheers,
Robin.

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