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 bnx2i code in scsi by using this latter form of callback registration.
Cc: Eddie Wai <eddie.wai@broadcom.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
p->iothread = NULL;
}
+ cpu_notifier_register_begin();
+
for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
bnx2i_percpu_thread_create(cpu);
/* Initialize per CPU interrupt thread */
- register_hotcpu_notifier(&bnx2i_cpu_notifier);
+ __register_hotcpu_notifier(&bnx2i_cpu_notifier);
+
+ cpu_notifier_register_done();
return 0;
}
mutex_unlock(&bnx2i_dev_lock);
- unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&bnx2i_cpu_notifier);
+ cpu_notifier_register_begin();
for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
bnx2i_percpu_thread_destroy(cpu);
+ __unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&bnx2i_cpu_notifier);
+
+ cpu_notifier_register_done();
+
iscsi_unregister_transport(&bnx2i_iscsi_transport);
cnic_unregister_driver(CNIC_ULP_ISCSI);
}