linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 29/52] x86, kvm: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration

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Date:	Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:25:43 +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, Gleb Natapov <gleb@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 29/52] x86, kvm: 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 kvm code in x86 by using this latter form of callback registration.

Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@...nel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: x86@...nel.org
Cc: kvm@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---

 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 39c28f09..0166923 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -5365,7 +5365,8 @@ static void kvm_timer_init(void)
 	int cpu;
 
 	max_tsc_khz = tsc_khz;
-	register_hotcpu_notifier(&kvmclock_cpu_notifier_block);
+
+	cpu_notifier_register_begin();
 	if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC)) {
 #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_FREQ
 		struct cpufreq_policy policy;
@@ -5382,6 +5383,10 @@ static void kvm_timer_init(void)
 	pr_debug("kvm: max_tsc_khz = %ld\n", max_tsc_khz);
 	for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
 		smp_call_function_single(cpu, tsc_khz_changed, NULL, 1);
+
+	__register_hotcpu_notifier(&kvmclock_cpu_notifier_block);
+	cpu_notifier_register_done();
+
 }
 
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kvm_vcpu *, current_vcpu);

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