x86, intel, cacheinfo: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
authorSrivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:37:57 +0000 (02:07 +0530)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:43:43 +0000 (13:43 +0100)
commit8c60ea146499b9d2a81ceb5e3e0bd215ef0b6287
tree1b1135663327d9910f0d83c738a8dc6f6805927a
parent047868ce2952bb6a86ccea3ecc6fd59faa9062a7
x86, intel, cacheinfo: 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 intel cacheinfo code in x86 by using this latter form of callback
registration.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.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/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c
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