Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753213AbaBNIDk (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Feb 2014 03:03:40 -0500 Received: from e28smtp07.in.ibm.com ([122.248.162.7]:49121 "EHLO e28smtp07.in.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753191AbaBNIDh (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Feb 2014 03:03:37 -0500 From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" Subject: [PATCH v2 39/52] clocksource, dummy-timer: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration To: paulus@samba.org, oleg@redhat.com, mingo@kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, peterz@infradead.org, tglx@linutronix.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, tj@kernel.org, walken@google.com, ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, rjw@rjwysocki.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Daniel Lezcano , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "Srivatsa S. Bhat" Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:28:05 +0530 Message-ID: <20140214075804.22701.19937.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20140214074750.22701.47330.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> References: <20140214074750.22701.47330.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> User-Agent: StGIT/0.14.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 14021408-8878-0000-0000-00000AE09E15 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 clocksource dummy-timer code by using this latter form of callback registration. Cc: Daniel Lezcano Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat --- drivers/clocksource/dummy_timer.c | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/dummy_timer.c b/drivers/clocksource/dummy_timer.c index b3eb582..ad35725 100644 --- a/drivers/clocksource/dummy_timer.c +++ b/drivers/clocksource/dummy_timer.c @@ -56,14 +56,19 @@ static struct notifier_block dummy_timer_cpu_nb = { static int __init dummy_timer_register(void) { - int err = register_cpu_notifier(&dummy_timer_cpu_nb); + int err = 0; + + cpu_notifier_register_begin(); + err = __register_cpu_notifier(&dummy_timer_cpu_nb); if (err) - return err; + goto out; /* We won't get a call on the boot CPU, so register immediately */ if (num_possible_cpus() > 1) dummy_timer_setup(); - return 0; +out: + cpu_notifier_register_done(); + return err; } early_initcall(dummy_timer_register); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/