x86, kvm: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
authorSrivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:39:01 +0000 (02:09 +0530)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:43:44 +0000 (13:43 +0100)
commit460dd42e1187047427e265edc451cb115341b74b
tree1fdfa8c138e8b0f308cdcd229d7c840d7b19b55a
parent76902e3d9ce88ebd70e362e4d3ff173afa5ce575
x86, kvm: 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 kvm code in x86 by using this latter form of callback registration.

Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
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