Commit 9f37bca9 authored by Srivatsa S. Bhat's avatar Srivatsa S. Bhat Committed by Rafael J. Wysocki

ia64, palinfo: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration

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 palinfo code in ia64 by using this latter form of callback
registration.

Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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>
parent eff722b0
......@@ -996,13 +996,17 @@ palinfo_init(void)
if (!palinfo_dir)
return -ENOMEM;
cpu_notifier_register_begin();
/* Create palinfo dirs in /proc for all online cpus */
for_each_online_cpu(i) {
create_palinfo_proc_entries(i);
}
/* Register for future delivery via notify registration */
register_hotcpu_notifier(&palinfo_cpu_notifier);
__register_hotcpu_notifier(&palinfo_cpu_notifier);
cpu_notifier_register_done();
return 0;
}
......
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