From eff722b06bdd6de326894ea2353ec0eda3e5ed34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 02:04:45 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] ia64, salinfo: Fix 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 salinfo code in ia64 by using this latter form of callback registration. Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki --- Reading git-format-patch failed