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 hwmon via-cputemp code by using this latter form of callback registration. Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/hwmon/via-cputemp.c | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/via-cputemp.c b/drivers/hwmon/via-cputemp.c index 38944e9..8df43c5 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/via-cputemp.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/via-cputemp.c @@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ static int __init via_cputemp_init(void) if (err) goto exit; - get_online_cpus(); + cpu_notifier_register_begin(); for_each_online_cpu(i) { struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &cpu_data(i); @@ -339,14 +339,14 @@ static int __init via_cputemp_init(void) #ifndef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU if (list_empty(&pdev_list)) { - put_online_cpus(); + cpu_notifier_register_done(); err = -ENODEV; goto exit_driver_unreg; } #endif - register_hotcpu_notifier(&via_cputemp_cpu_notifier); - put_online_cpus(); + __register_hotcpu_notifier(&via_cputemp_cpu_notifier); + cpu_notifier_register_done(); return 0; #ifndef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU @@ -361,8 +361,8 @@ static void __exit via_cputemp_exit(void) { struct pdev_entry *p, *n; - get_online_cpus(); - unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&via_cputemp_cpu_notifier); + cpu_notifier_register_begin(); + __unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&via_cputemp_cpu_notifier); mutex_lock(&pdev_list_mutex); list_for_each_entry_safe(p, n, &pdev_list, list) { platform_device_unregister(p->pdev); @@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ static void __exit via_cputemp_exit(void) kfree(p); } mutex_unlock(&pdev_list_mutex); - put_online_cpus(); + cpu_notifier_register_done(); platform_driver_unregister(&via_cputemp_driver); } _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors