From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from e23smtp07.au.ibm.com (e23smtp07.au.ibm.com [202.81.31.140]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 54AB42C0730 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:38:11 +1100 (EST) Received: from /spool/local by e23smtp07.au.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 06:38:11 +1000 Received: from d23relay04.au.ibm.com (d23relay04.au.ibm.com [9.190.234.120]) by d23dlp02.au.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 244F52BB0052 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:38:09 +1100 (EST) Received: from d23av02.au.ibm.com (d23av02.au.ibm.com [9.190.235.138]) by d23relay04.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id s2AKI8td5767448 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:18:08 +1100 Received: from d23av02.au.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d23av02.au.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id s2AKc7k2029852 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:38:08 +1100 From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" Subject: [PATCH v3 23/52] x86, intel, cacheinfo: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration To: paulus@samba.org, oleg@redhat.com, mingo@kernel.org, rjw@rjwysocki.net, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, peterz@infradead.org, tglx@linutronix.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 02:07:57 +0530 Message-ID: <20140310203757.10746.76090.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20140310203312.10746.310.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> References: <20140310203312.10746.310.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com, walken@google.com, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Borislav Petkov , "Srivatsa S. Bhat" , "H. Peter Anvin" , tj@kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Ingo Molnar List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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 Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c index 0641113..a952e9c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c @@ -1225,21 +1225,24 @@ static struct notifier_block cacheinfo_cpu_notifier = { static int __init cache_sysfs_init(void) { - int i; + int i, err = 0; if (num_cache_leaves == 0) return 0; + cpu_notifier_register_begin(); for_each_online_cpu(i) { - int err; struct device *dev = get_cpu_device(i); err = cache_add_dev(dev); if (err) - return err; + goto out; } - register_hotcpu_notifier(&cacheinfo_cpu_notifier); - return 0; + __register_hotcpu_notifier(&cacheinfo_cpu_notifier); + +out: + cpu_notifier_register_done(); + return err; } device_initcall(cache_sysfs_init);