linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 09/52] arm, hw-breakpoint: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration

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Message-ID: <20140214075108.22701.93980.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:21:09 +0530
From:	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	paulus@...ba.org, oleg@...hat.com, mingo@...nel.org,
	rusty@...tcorp.com.au, peterz@...radead.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, tj@...nel.org, walken@...gle.com,
	ego@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux@....linux.org.uk, rjw@...ysocki.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 09/52] arm,
 hw-breakpoint: 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 hw-breakpoint code in arm by using this latter form of callback
registration.

Cc: Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---

 arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
index 3d44660..3702de8 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
@@ -1072,6 +1072,8 @@ static int __init arch_hw_breakpoint_init(void)
 	core_num_brps = get_num_brps();
 	core_num_wrps = get_num_wrps();
 
+	cpu_notifier_register_begin();
+
 	/*
 	 * We need to tread carefully here because DBGSWENABLE may be
 	 * driven low on this core and there isn't an architected way to
@@ -1088,6 +1090,7 @@ static int __init arch_hw_breakpoint_init(void)
 	if (!cpumask_empty(&debug_err_mask)) {
 		core_num_brps = 0;
 		core_num_wrps = 0;
+		cpu_notifier_register_done();
 		return 0;
 	}
 
@@ -1107,7 +1110,10 @@ static int __init arch_hw_breakpoint_init(void)
 			TRAP_HWBKPT, "breakpoint debug exception");
 
 	/* Register hotplug and PM notifiers. */
-	register_cpu_notifier(&dbg_reset_nb);
+	__register_cpu_notifier(&dbg_reset_nb);
+
+	cpu_notifier_register_done();
+
 	pm_init();
 	return 0;
 }

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