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 debug-monitors code in arm64 by using this latter form of callback
registration.
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@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/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c
index 636ba8b..c985531 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c
@@ -155,12 +155,16 @@ static struct notifier_block os_lock_nb = {
static int debug_monitors_init(void)
{
+ cpu_notifier_register_begin();
+
/* Clear the OS lock. */
smp_call_function(clear_os_lock, NULL, 1);
clear_os_lock(NULL);
/* Register hotplug handler. */
- register_cpu_notifier(&os_lock_nb);
+ __register_cpu_notifier(&os_lock_nb);
+
+ cpu_notifier_register_done();
return 0;
}
postcore_initcall(debug_monitors_init);
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