Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751792AbaBNKat (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Feb 2014 05:30:49 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:49090 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751242AbaBNKaq (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Feb 2014 05:30:46 -0500 Message-ID: <52FDF013.2030101@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 11:29:39 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" , 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, Gleb Natapov , "H. Peter Anvin" , x86@kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 29/52] x86, kvm: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration References: <20140214074750.22701.47330.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> <20140214075542.22701.24501.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20140214075542.22701.24501.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Il 14/02/2014 08:55, Srivatsa S. Bhat ha scritto: > 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 kvm code in x86 by using this latter form of callback registration. > > Cc: Gleb Natapov > Cc: Paolo Bonzini > Cc: Thomas Gleixner > Cc: Ingo Molnar > Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" > Cc: x86@kernel.org > Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat > --- > > arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 7 ++++++- > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c > index 39c28f09..0166923 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c > @@ -5365,7 +5365,8 @@ static void kvm_timer_init(void) > int cpu; > > max_tsc_khz = tsc_khz; > - register_hotcpu_notifier(&kvmclock_cpu_notifier_block); > + > + cpu_notifier_register_begin(); > if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC)) { > #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_FREQ > struct cpufreq_policy policy; > @@ -5382,6 +5383,10 @@ static void kvm_timer_init(void) > pr_debug("kvm: max_tsc_khz = %ld\n", max_tsc_khz); > for_each_online_cpu(cpu) > smp_call_function_single(cpu, tsc_khz_changed, NULL, 1); > + > + __register_hotcpu_notifier(&kvmclock_cpu_notifier_block); > + cpu_notifier_register_done(); > + > } > > static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kvm_vcpu *, current_vcpu); > Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini -- 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/