oprofile, nmi-timer: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
authorSrivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:40:36 +0000 (02:10 +0530)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:43:46 +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 nmi-timer code in oprofile by using this latter form of callback
registration.

Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
drivers/oprofile/nmi_timer_int.c

index 76f1c9357f39d2a285c6bd8af17eb2c4aac5dcad..9559829fb234de4088602ca6e942e8dd11bd43ff 100644 (file)
@@ -108,8 +108,8 @@ static void nmi_timer_shutdown(void)
        struct perf_event *event;
        int cpu;
 
-       get_online_cpus();
-       unregister_cpu_notifier(&nmi_timer_cpu_nb);
+       cpu_notifier_register_begin();
+       __unregister_cpu_notifier(&nmi_timer_cpu_nb);
        for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
                event = per_cpu(nmi_timer_events, cpu);
                if (!event)
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ static void nmi_timer_shutdown(void)
                perf_event_release_kernel(event);
        }
 
-       put_online_cpus();
+       cpu_notifier_register_done();
 }
 
 static int nmi_timer_setup(void)
@@ -132,20 +132,23 @@ static int nmi_timer_setup(void)
        do_div(period, HZ);
        nmi_timer_attr.sample_period = period;
 
-       get_online_cpus();
-       err = register_cpu_notifier(&nmi_timer_cpu_nb);
+       cpu_notifier_register_begin();
+       err = __register_cpu_notifier(&nmi_timer_cpu_nb);
        if (err)
                goto out;
+
        /* can't attach events to offline cpus: */
        for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
                err = nmi_timer_start_cpu(cpu);
-               if (err)
-                       break;
+               if (err) {
+                       cpu_notifier_register_done();
+                       nmi_timer_shutdown();
+                       return err;
+               }
        }
-       if (err)
-               nmi_timer_shutdown();
+
 out:
-       put_online_cpus();
+       cpu_notifier_register_done();
        return err;
 }
 
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