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authorSrivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2014-03-11 02:12:57 +0530
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2014-03-20 13:43:48 +0100
commita0e247a8059223593f9c5c3d5c1fd50eedf415c0 (patch)
tree8a5dedd84f4de6e40916a6e55e1a1cd3e09d86a3 /drivers/watchdog
parente30a293e8ad7e6048d6d88bcc114094f964bd67b (diff)
net/iucv/iucv.c: 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 code in net/iucv/iucv.c by using this latter form of callback registration. Also, provide helper functions to perform the common memory allocations and frees, to condense repetitive code. Cc: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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