From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:30:43 +0530 > 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: ... > 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: ... > Fix the code in net/core/flow.c by using this latter form of callback > registration. > > Cc: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
