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powercap, intel-rapl: 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 intel-rapl code in the powercap driver by using this latter form
of callback registration. But retain the calls to get/put_online_cpus(),
since they also protect the function rapl_cleanup_data(). By nesting
get/put_online_cpus() *inside* cpu_notifier_register_begin/done(), we avoid
the ABBA deadlock possibility mentioned above.

Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Jacob Pan <[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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10 changes: 8 additions & 2 deletions drivers/powercap/intel_rapl.c
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Expand Up @@ -1369,6 +1369,9 @@ static int __init rapl_init(void)

return -ENODEV;
}

cpu_notifier_register_begin();

/* prevent CPU hotplug during detection */
get_online_cpus();
ret = rapl_detect_topology();
Expand All @@ -1380,20 +1383,23 @@ static int __init rapl_init(void)
ret = -ENODEV;
goto done;
}
register_hotcpu_notifier(&rapl_cpu_notifier);
__register_hotcpu_notifier(&rapl_cpu_notifier);
done:
put_online_cpus();
cpu_notifier_register_done();

return ret;
}

static void __exit rapl_exit(void)
{
cpu_notifier_register_begin();
get_online_cpus();
unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&rapl_cpu_notifier);
__unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&rapl_cpu_notifier);
rapl_unregister_powercap();
rapl_cleanup_data();
put_online_cpus();
cpu_notifier_register_done();
}

module_init(rapl_init);
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