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powerpc, sysfs: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
authorSrivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:36:31 +0000 (02:06 +0530)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:43:42 +0000 (13:43 +0100)
commitd1a5511390b0eb242c70ab977abff28644f66a5a
treeca3582cec9483dad7df5a49848715c141e0ffab9
parent1e0b0c4c6b9241b66c6032e14962a149f852f23a
powerpc, sysfs: 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 sysfs code in powerpc by using this latter form of callback
registration.

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: Wang Dongsheng <dongsheng.wang@freescale.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.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/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c