linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 49/52] mm, vmstat: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration

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Date:	Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:30:18 +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,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Cody P Schafer <cody@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@...com>, Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 49/52] mm, vmstat: 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 vmstat code in the MM subsystem by using this latter form of callback
registration.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc: Cody P Schafer <cody@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@...com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---

 mm/vmstat.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index 7249614..12a553e 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -1290,14 +1290,14 @@ static int __init setup_vmstat(void)
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 	int cpu;
 
-	register_cpu_notifier(&vmstat_notifier);
+	cpu_notifier_register_begin();
+	__register_cpu_notifier(&vmstat_notifier);
 
-	get_online_cpus();
 	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
 		start_cpu_timer(cpu);
 		node_set_state(cpu_to_node(cpu), N_CPU);
 	}
-	put_online_cpus();
+	cpu_notifier_register_done();
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
 	proc_create("buddyinfo", S_IRUGO, NULL, &fragmentation_file_operations);

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