CPU hotplug, perf: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
authorSrivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:34:39 +0000 (02:04 +0530)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:43:40 +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 perf subsystem's hotplug notifier by using this latter form of
callback registration.

Also provide a bare-bones version of perf_cpu_notifier() that doesn't
invoke the notifiers for the already online CPUs. This would be useful
for subsystems that need to perform a different set of initialization
for the already online CPUs, or don't need the initialization altogether.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
include/linux/perf_event.h

index e56b07f5c9b67f0119d874b60a8a6bed9fda7e99..3356abcfff184e707eccb08d6f99042a8fd51acc 100644 (file)
@@ -835,6 +835,8 @@ do {                                                                        \
                { .notifier_call = fn, .priority = CPU_PRI_PERF };      \
        unsigned long cpu = smp_processor_id();                         \
        unsigned long flags;                                            \
+                                                                       \
+       cpu_notifier_register_begin();                                  \
        fn(&fn##_nb, (unsigned long)CPU_UP_PREPARE,                     \
                (void *)(unsigned long)cpu);                            \
        local_irq_save(flags);                                          \
@@ -843,9 +845,21 @@ do {                                                                       \
        local_irq_restore(flags);                                       \
        fn(&fn##_nb, (unsigned long)CPU_ONLINE,                         \
                (void *)(unsigned long)cpu);                            \
-       register_cpu_notifier(&fn##_nb);                                \
+       __register_cpu_notifier(&fn##_nb);                              \
+       cpu_notifier_register_done();                                   \
 } while (0)
 
+/*
+ * Bare-bones version of perf_cpu_notifier(), which doesn't invoke the
+ * callback for already online CPUs.
+ */
+#define __perf_cpu_notifier(fn)                                                \
+do {                                                                   \
+       static struct notifier_block fn##_nb =                          \
+               { .notifier_call = fn, .priority = CPU_PRI_PERF };      \
+                                                                       \
+       __register_cpu_notifier(&fn##_nb);                              \
+} while (0)
 
 struct perf_pmu_events_attr {
        struct device_attribute attr;