From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 22:12:45 +0000 (+0530) Subject: md/raid5: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration X-Git-Tag: v3.2.56~92 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=778c4783df0ff6dcc120fe5c1dc9b6afa1980cd0;p=pandora-kernel.git md/raid5: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration commit 789b5e0315284463617e106baad360cb9e8db3ac upstream. 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). Interestingly, the raid5 code can actually prevent double initialization and hence can use the following simplified form of callback registration: register_cpu_notifier(&foobar_cpu_notifier); get_online_cpus(); for_each_online_cpu(cpu) init_cpu(cpu); put_online_cpus(); A hotplug operation that occurs between registering the notifier and calling get_online_cpus(), won't disrupt anything, because the code takes care to perform the memory allocations only once. So reorganize the code in raid5 this way to fix the deadlock with callback registration. Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 36d1c6476be51101778882897b315bd928c8c7b5 Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov [Srivatsa: Fixed the unregister_cpu_notifier() deadlock, added the free_scratch_buffer() helper to condense code further and wrote the changelog.] Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- Reading git-diff-tree failed