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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: [17/20] PM / Sleep: Fix race between CPU hotplug and freezer
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:07:08 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120110200851.273206279@clark.kroah.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120110200902.GA5674@kroah.com>

2.6.32-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

commit 79cfbdfa87e84992d509e6c1648a18e1d7e68c20 upstream.

The CPU hotplug notifications sent out by the _cpu_up() and _cpu_down()
functions depend on the value of the 'tasks_frozen' argument passed to them
(which indicates whether tasks have been frozen or not).
(Examples for such CPU hotplug notifications: CPU_ONLINE, CPU_ONLINE_FROZEN,
CPU_DEAD, CPU_DEAD_FROZEN).

Thus, it is essential that while the callbacks for those notifications are
running, the state of the system with respect to the tasks being frozen or
not remains unchanged, *throughout that duration*. Hence there is a need for
synchronizing the CPU hotplug code with the freezer subsystem.

Since the freezer is involved only in the Suspend/Hibernate call paths, this
patch hooks the CPU hotplug code to the suspend/hibernate notifiers
PM_[SUSPEND|HIBERNATE]_PREPARE and PM_POST_[SUSPEND|HIBERNATE] to prevent
the race between CPU hotplug and freezer, thus ensuring that CPU hotplug
notifications will always be run with the state of the system really being
what the notifications indicate, _throughout_ their execution time.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 kernel/cpu.c |   74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 74 insertions(+)

--- a/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include <linux/stop_machine.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
+#include <linux/suspend.h>
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 /* Serializes the updates to cpu_online_mask, cpu_present_mask */
@@ -442,6 +443,79 @@ static int alloc_frozen_cpus(void)
 	return 0;
 }
 core_initcall(alloc_frozen_cpus);
+
+/*
+ * Prevent regular CPU hotplug from racing with the freezer, by disabling CPU
+ * hotplug when tasks are about to be frozen. Also, don't allow the freezer
+ * to continue until any currently running CPU hotplug operation gets
+ * completed.
+ * To modify the 'cpu_hotplug_disabled' flag, we need to acquire the
+ * 'cpu_add_remove_lock'. And this same lock is also taken by the regular
+ * CPU hotplug path and released only after it is complete. Thus, we
+ * (and hence the freezer) will block here until any currently running CPU
+ * hotplug operation gets completed.
+ */
+void cpu_hotplug_disable_before_freeze(void)
+{
+	cpu_maps_update_begin();
+	cpu_hotplug_disabled = 1;
+	cpu_maps_update_done();
+}
+
+
+/*
+ * When tasks have been thawed, re-enable regular CPU hotplug (which had been
+ * disabled while beginning to freeze tasks).
+ */
+void cpu_hotplug_enable_after_thaw(void)
+{
+	cpu_maps_update_begin();
+	cpu_hotplug_disabled = 0;
+	cpu_maps_update_done();
+}
+
+/*
+ * When callbacks for CPU hotplug notifications are being executed, we must
+ * ensure that the state of the system with respect to the tasks being frozen
+ * or not, as reported by the notification, remains unchanged *throughout the
+ * duration* of the execution of the callbacks.
+ * Hence we need to prevent the freezer from racing with regular CPU hotplug.
+ *
+ * This synchronization is implemented by mutually excluding regular CPU
+ * hotplug and Suspend/Hibernate call paths by hooking onto the Suspend/
+ * Hibernate notifications.
+ */
+static int
+cpu_hotplug_pm_callback(struct notifier_block *nb,
+			unsigned long action, void *ptr)
+{
+	switch (action) {
+
+	case PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE:
+	case PM_HIBERNATION_PREPARE:
+		cpu_hotplug_disable_before_freeze();
+		break;
+
+	case PM_POST_SUSPEND:
+	case PM_POST_HIBERNATION:
+		cpu_hotplug_enable_after_thaw();
+		break;
+
+	default:
+		return NOTIFY_DONE;
+	}
+
+	return NOTIFY_OK;
+}
+
+
+int cpu_hotplug_pm_sync_init(void)
+{
+	pm_notifier(cpu_hotplug_pm_callback, 0);
+	return 0;
+}
+core_initcall(cpu_hotplug_pm_sync_init);
+
 #endif /* CONFIG_PM_SLEEP_SMP */
 
 /**



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-10 20:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-10 20:09 [00/20] 2.6.32.54-longterm review Greg KH
2012-01-10 20:06 ` [01/20] MAINTAINERS: stable: Update address Greg KH
2012-01-10 20:06 ` [02/20] Documentation: Update stable address Greg KH
2012-01-10 20:06 ` [03/20] firmware: Fix an oops on reading fw_priv->fw in sysfs loading file Greg KH
2012-01-10 20:06 ` [04/20] offb: Fix setting of the pseudo-palette for >8bpp Greg KH
2012-01-10 20:06 ` [05/20] offb: Fix bug in calculating requested vram size Greg KH
2012-01-10 20:06 ` [06/20] asix: new device id Greg KH
2012-01-10 20:06 ` [07/20] reiserfs: Fix quota mount option parsing Greg KH
2012-01-10 20:06 ` [08/20] reiserfs: Force inode evictions before umount to avoid crash Greg KH
2012-01-10 20:07 ` [09/20] USB: update documentation for usbmon Greg KH
2012-01-10 20:07 ` [10/20] drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c: clear dangling pointer Greg KH
2012-01-10 20:07 ` [11/20] USB: isight: fix kernel bug when loading firmware Greg KH
2012-01-10 20:07 ` [12/20] usb: usb-storage doesnt support dynamic id currently, the patch disables the feature to fix an oops Greg KH
2012-01-10 20:07 ` [13/20] USB: add quirk for another camera Greg KH
2012-01-10 20:07 ` [14/20] USB: omninet: fix write_room Greg KH
2012-01-10 20:07 ` [15/20] USB: Add USB-ID for Multiplex RC serial adapter to cp210x.c Greg KH
2012-01-10 20:07 ` [16/20] asix: fix infinite loop in rx_fixup() Greg KH
2012-01-10 20:07 ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-01-10 20:07 ` [18/20] SCSI: scsi_dh: check queuedata pointer before proceeding further Greg KH
2012-01-10 20:07 ` [19/20] xfs: validate acl count Greg KH
2012-01-10 20:07 ` [20/20] xfs: fix acl count validation in xfs_acl_from_disk() Greg KH

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