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 bnx2i code in scsi by using this latter form of callback registration. Cc: Eddie Wai <eddie.wai@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/bnx2i/bnx2i_init.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/bnx2i/bnx2i_init.c b/drivers/scsi/bnx2i/bnx2i_init.c index 34c294b..80c03b4 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/bnx2i/bnx2i_init.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/bnx2i/bnx2i_init.c @@ -537,11 +537,15 @@ static int __init bnx2i_mod_init(void) p->iothread = NULL; } + cpu_notifier_register_begin(); + for_each_online_cpu(cpu) bnx2i_percpu_thread_create(cpu); /* Initialize per CPU interrupt thread */ - register_hotcpu_notifier(&bnx2i_cpu_notifier); + __register_hotcpu_notifier(&bnx2i_cpu_notifier); + + cpu_notifier_register_done(); return 0; @@ -581,11 +585,15 @@ static void __exit bnx2i_mod_exit(void) } mutex_unlock(&bnx2i_dev_lock); - unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&bnx2i_cpu_notifier); + cpu_notifier_register_begin(); for_each_online_cpu(cpu) bnx2i_percpu_thread_destroy(cpu); + __unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&bnx2i_cpu_notifier); + + cpu_notifier_register_done(); + iscsi_unregister_transport(&bnx2i_iscsi_transport); cnic_unregister_driver(CNIC_ULP_ISCSI); } -- 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
