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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- 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; } -- 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