[PATCH v3 30/52] arm64, hw_breakpoint.c: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration

Srivatsa S. Bhat srivatsa.bhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Mar 10 16:39:08 EDT 2014


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 arm64 by using this latter form of callback
registration.

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi at arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---

 arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
index f17f581..bee7897 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
@@ -913,6 +913,8 @@ static int __init arch_hw_breakpoint_init(void)
 	pr_info("found %d breakpoint and %d watchpoint registers.\n",
 		core_num_brps, core_num_wrps);
 
+	cpu_notifier_register_begin();
+
 	/*
 	 * Reset the breakpoint resources. We assume that a halting
 	 * debugger will leave the world in a nice state for us.
@@ -927,7 +929,10 @@ static int __init arch_hw_breakpoint_init(void)
 			      TRAP_HWBKPT, "hw-watchpoint handler");
 
 	/* Register hotplug notifier. */
-	register_cpu_notifier(&hw_breakpoint_reset_nb);
+	__register_cpu_notifier(&hw_breakpoint_reset_nb);
+
+	cpu_notifier_register_done();
+
 	/* Register cpu_suspend hw breakpoint restore hook */
 	cpu_suspend_set_dbg_restorer(hw_breakpoint_reset);
 




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