net/iucv/iucv.c: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
authorSrivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:42:57 +0000 (02:12 +0530)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:43:48 +0000 (13:43 +0100)
commita0e247a8059223593f9c5c3d5c1fd50eedf415c0
tree8a5dedd84f4de6e40916a6e55e1a1cd3e09d86a3
parente30a293e8ad7e6048d6d88bcc114094f964bd67b
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>
net/iucv/iucv.c