zsmalloc: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
authorSrivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:39:59 +0000 (02:09 +0530)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:43:45 +0000 (13:43 +0100)
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 zsmalloc code by using this latter form of callback registration.

Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
mm/zsmalloc.c

index c03ca5e9fe15c8b9725db0ac41b6ba78f64b0e5d..36b4591a7a2d3b2eca7111b26bee3efa19c7c5c5 100644 (file)
@@ -814,21 +814,32 @@ static void zs_exit(void)
 {
        int cpu;
 
+       cpu_notifier_register_begin();
+
        for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
                zs_cpu_notifier(NULL, CPU_DEAD, (void *)(long)cpu);
-       unregister_cpu_notifier(&zs_cpu_nb);
+       __unregister_cpu_notifier(&zs_cpu_nb);
+
+       cpu_notifier_register_done();
 }
 
 static int zs_init(void)
 {
        int cpu, ret;
 
-       register_cpu_notifier(&zs_cpu_nb);
+       cpu_notifier_register_begin();
+
+       __register_cpu_notifier(&zs_cpu_nb);
        for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
                ret = zs_cpu_notifier(NULL, CPU_UP_PREPARE, (void *)(long)cpu);
-               if (notifier_to_errno(ret))
+               if (notifier_to_errno(ret)) {
+                       cpu_notifier_register_done();
                        goto fail;
+               }
        }
+
+       cpu_notifier_register_done();
+
        return 0;
 fail:
        zs_exit();