x86, oprofile, nmi: 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 oprofile code in x86 by using this latter form of callback registration. But retain the calls to get/put_online_cpus(), since they are used in other places as well, to protect the variables 'nmi_enabled' and 'ctr_running'. Strictly speaking, this is not necessary since cpu_notifier_register_begin/done() provide a stronger synchronization with CPU hotplug than get/put_online_cpus(). However, let's retain the calls to get/put_online_cpus() to be consistent with the other call-sites. By nesting get/put_online_cpus() *inside* cpu_notifier_register_begin/done(), we avoid the ABBA deadlock possibility mentioned above. Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> 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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