Revision 789b5e0315284463617e106baad360cb9e8db3ac authored by Oleg Nesterov on 05 February 2014, 22:12:45 UTC, committed by NeilBrown on 13 February 2014, 02:46:45 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).

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
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v2.6.32+)
Fixes: 36d1c6476be51101778882897b315bd928c8c7b5
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
[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 <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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