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_maps_update_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_maps_update_done(); Fix the hwmon coretemp code by using this latter form of callback registration. Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c b/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c index bbb0b0d..43c436b 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c @@ -849,20 +849,20 @@ static int __init coretemp_init(void) if (err) goto exit; - get_online_cpus(); + cpu_maps_update_begin(); for_each_online_cpu(i) get_core_online(i); #ifndef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU if (list_empty(&pdev_list)) { - put_online_cpus(); + cpu_maps_update_done(); err = -ENODEV; goto exit_driver_unreg; } #endif - register_hotcpu_notifier(&coretemp_cpu_notifier); - put_online_cpus(); + __register_hotcpu_notifier(&coretemp_cpu_notifier); + cpu_maps_update_done(); return 0; #ifndef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU @@ -877,8 +877,8 @@ static void __exit coretemp_exit(void) { struct pdev_entry *p, *n; - get_online_cpus(); - unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&coretemp_cpu_notifier); + cpu_maps_update_begin(); + __unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&coretemp_cpu_notifier); mutex_lock(&pdev_list_mutex); list_for_each_entry_safe(p, n, &pdev_list, list) { platform_device_unregister(p->pdev); @@ -886,7 +886,7 @@ static void __exit coretemp_exit(void) kfree(p); } mutex_unlock(&pdev_list_mutex); - put_online_cpus(); + cpu_maps_update_done(); platform_driver_unregister(&coretemp_driver); } _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors