x86, therm_throt.c: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
authorSrivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:37:21 +0000 (02:07 +0530)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:43:42 +0000 (13:43 +0100)
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 thermal throttle code in x86 by using this latter form of callback
registration.

Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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/mcheck/therm_throt.c

index 3eec7de76efbb4650ea760f5163d495f47fd1f1d..e05dfa398dc294ed716a9d1beb3a6d1fd902e781 100644 (file)
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ static __init int thermal_throttle_init_device(void)
        if (!atomic_read(&therm_throt_en))
                return 0;
 
-       register_hotcpu_notifier(&thermal_throttle_cpu_notifier);
+       cpu_notifier_register_begin();
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
        mutex_lock(&therm_cpu_lock);
@@ -333,6 +333,9 @@ static __init int thermal_throttle_init_device(void)
        mutex_unlock(&therm_cpu_lock);
 #endif
 
+       __register_hotcpu_notifier(&thermal_throttle_cpu_notifier);
+       cpu_notifier_register_done();
+
        return 0;
 }
 device_initcall(thermal_throttle_init_device);