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 cpuid code in x86 by using this latter form of callback registration. Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpuid.c | 15 ++++++++------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpuid.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpuid.c index 7d9481c..3225ae6c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpuid.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpuid.c @@ -198,14 +198,15 @@ static int __init cpuid_init(void) goto out_chrdev; } cpuid_class->devnode = cpuid_devnode; - get_online_cpus(); + + cpu_notifier_register_begin(); for_each_online_cpu(i) { err = cpuid_device_create(i); if (err != 0) goto out_class; } - register_hotcpu_notifier(&cpuid_class_cpu_notifier); - put_online_cpus(); + __register_hotcpu_notifier(&cpuid_class_cpu_notifier); + cpu_notifier_register_done(); err = 0; goto out; @@ -215,7 +216,7 @@ out_class: for_each_online_cpu(i) { cpuid_device_destroy(i); } - put_online_cpus(); + cpu_notifier_register_done(); class_destroy(cpuid_class); out_chrdev: __unregister_chrdev(CPUID_MAJOR, 0, NR_CPUS, "cpu/cpuid"); @@ -227,13 +228,13 @@ static void __exit cpuid_exit(void) { int cpu = 0; - get_online_cpus(); + cpu_notifier_register_begin(); for_each_online_cpu(cpu) cpuid_device_destroy(cpu); class_destroy(cpuid_class); __unregister_chrdev(CPUID_MAJOR, 0, NR_CPUS, "cpu/cpuid"); - unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&cpuid_class_cpu_notifier); - put_online_cpus(); + __unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&cpuid_class_cpu_notifier); + cpu_notifier_register_done(); } module_init(cpuid_init); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html