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 fcoe code in scsi by using this latter form of callback registration. Cc: Robert Love <robert.w.love@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: fcoe-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c | 15 +++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c b/drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c index f317000..d5e105b 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c @@ -2633,14 +2633,18 @@ static int __init fcoe_init(void) skb_queue_head_init(&p->fcoe_rx_list); } + cpu_notifier_register_begin(); + for_each_online_cpu(cpu) fcoe_percpu_thread_create(cpu); /* Initialize per CPU interrupt thread */ - rc = register_hotcpu_notifier(&fcoe_cpu_notifier); + rc = __register_hotcpu_notifier(&fcoe_cpu_notifier); if (rc) goto out_free; + cpu_notifier_register_done(); + /* Setup link change notification */ fcoe_dev_setup(); @@ -2655,6 +2659,9 @@ out_free: for_each_online_cpu(cpu) { fcoe_percpu_thread_destroy(cpu); } + + cpu_notifier_register_done(); + mutex_unlock(&fcoe_config_mutex); destroy_workqueue(fcoe_wq); return rc; @@ -2687,11 +2694,15 @@ static void __exit fcoe_exit(void) } rtnl_unlock(); - unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&fcoe_cpu_notifier); + cpu_notifier_register_begin(); for_each_online_cpu(cpu) fcoe_percpu_thread_destroy(cpu); + __unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&fcoe_cpu_notifier); + + cpu_notifier_register_done(); + mutex_unlock(&fcoe_config_mutex); /* -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html