arm, hw-breakpoint: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
authorSrivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:35:21 +0000 (02:05 +0530)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:43:41 +0000 (13:43 +0100)
commitc5929bd3a9920432dfb485253c64163fdfc90faf
tree088ea4025650fbfbff3013e341ca30d61585ce5c
parentf2e48a89053dea259d7f96cf0fd1cfc7c4b34d80
arm, hw-breakpoint: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration

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 hw-breakpoint code in arm by using this latter form of callback
registration.

Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c