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    x86, oprofile, nmi: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration · 76902e3d
    Srivatsa S. Bhat authored
    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 oprofile code in x86 by using this latter form of callback
    registration. But retain the calls to get/put_online_cpus(), since they are
    used in other places as well, to protect the variables 'nmi_enabled' and
    'ctr_running'. Strictly speaking, this is not necessary since
    cpu_notifier_register_begin/done() provide a stronger synchronization
    with CPU hotplug than get/put_online_cpus(). However, let's retain the
    calls to get/put_online_cpus() to be consistent with the other call-sites.
    
    By nesting get/put_online_cpus() *inside* cpu_notifier_register_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@kernel.org>
    Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSrivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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