From a0e247a8059223593f9c5c3d5c1fd50eedf415c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 02:12:57 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Cc: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki --- Reading git-format-patch failed