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oprofile, nmi-timer: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
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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 nmi-timer code in oprofile by using this latter form of callback
registration.

Cc: Robert Richter <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
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Srivatsa S. Bhat authored and rafaeljw committed Mar 20, 2014
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23 changes: 13 additions & 10 deletions drivers/oprofile/nmi_timer_int.c
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Expand Up @@ -108,8 +108,8 @@ static void nmi_timer_shutdown(void)
struct perf_event *event;
int cpu;

get_online_cpus();
unregister_cpu_notifier(&nmi_timer_cpu_nb);
cpu_notifier_register_begin();
__unregister_cpu_notifier(&nmi_timer_cpu_nb);
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
event = per_cpu(nmi_timer_events, cpu);
if (!event)
Expand All @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ static void nmi_timer_shutdown(void)
perf_event_release_kernel(event);
}

put_online_cpus();
cpu_notifier_register_done();
}

static int nmi_timer_setup(void)
Expand All @@ -132,20 +132,23 @@ static int nmi_timer_setup(void)
do_div(period, HZ);
nmi_timer_attr.sample_period = period;

get_online_cpus();
err = register_cpu_notifier(&nmi_timer_cpu_nb);
cpu_notifier_register_begin();
err = __register_cpu_notifier(&nmi_timer_cpu_nb);
if (err)
goto out;

/* can't attach events to offline cpus: */
for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
err = nmi_timer_start_cpu(cpu);
if (err)
break;
if (err) {
cpu_notifier_register_done();
nmi_timer_shutdown();
return err;
}
}
if (err)
nmi_timer_shutdown();

out:
put_online_cpus();
cpu_notifier_register_done();
return err;
}

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