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[v3,33/52] scsi, bnx2i: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration

Message ID 20140310203938.10746.18579.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com (mailing list archive)
State Not Applicable
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Srivatsa S. Bhat March 10, 2014, 8:39 p.m. UTC 
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 bnx2i code in scsi by using this latter form of callback registration.

Cc: Eddie Wai <eddie.wai@broadcom.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---

 drivers/scsi/bnx2i/bnx2i_init.c |   12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/scsi/bnx2i/bnx2i_init.c b/drivers/scsi/bnx2i/bnx2i_init.c
index 34c294b..80c03b4 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/bnx2i/bnx2i_init.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/bnx2i/bnx2i_init.c
@@ -537,11 +537,15 @@  static int __init bnx2i_mod_init(void)
 		p->iothread = NULL;
 	}
 
+	cpu_notifier_register_begin();
+
 	for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
 		bnx2i_percpu_thread_create(cpu);
 
 	/* Initialize per CPU interrupt thread */
-	register_hotcpu_notifier(&bnx2i_cpu_notifier);
+	__register_hotcpu_notifier(&bnx2i_cpu_notifier);
+
+	cpu_notifier_register_done();
 
 	return 0;
 
@@ -581,11 +585,15 @@  static void __exit bnx2i_mod_exit(void)
 	}
 	mutex_unlock(&bnx2i_dev_lock);
 
-	unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&bnx2i_cpu_notifier);
+	cpu_notifier_register_begin();
 
 	for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
 		bnx2i_percpu_thread_destroy(cpu);
 
+	__unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&bnx2i_cpu_notifier);
+
+	cpu_notifier_register_done();
+
 	iscsi_unregister_transport(&bnx2i_iscsi_transport);
 	cnic_unregister_driver(CNIC_ULP_ISCSI);
 }