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Thomas Gleixner 1ddd45f8d7 PCI: Use cpu_hotplug_disable() instead of get_online_cpus()
Converting the hotplug locking, i.e. get_online_cpus(), to a percpu rwsem
unearthed a circular lock dependency which was hidden from lockdep due to
the lockdep annotation of get_online_cpus() which prevents lockdep from
creating full dependency chains. There are several variants of this. And
example is:

Chain exists of:

cpu_hotplug_lock.rw_sem --> drm_global_mutex --> &item->mutex

CPU0                    CPU1
----                    ----
lock(&item->mutex);
                        lock(drm_global_mutex);
                        lock(&item->mutex);
lock(cpu_hotplug_lock.rw_sem);

because there are dependencies through workqueues. The call chain is:

	get_online_cpus
	apply_workqueue_attrs
	__alloc_workqueue_key
	ttm_mem_global_init
	ast_ttm_mem_global_init
	drm_global_item_ref
	ast_mm_init
	ast_driver_load
	drm_dev_register
	drm_get_pci_dev
	ast_pci_probe
	local_pci_probe
	work_for_cpu_fn
	process_one_work
	worker_thread

This is not a problem of get_online_cpus() recursion, it's a possible
deadlock undetected by lockdep so far.

The cure is to use cpu_hotplug_disable() instead of get_online_cpus() to
protect the PCI probing.

There is a side effect to this: cpu_hotplug_disable() makes a concurrent
cpu hotplug attempt via the sysfs interfaces fail with -EBUSY, but PCI
probing usually happens during the boot process where no interaction is
possible. Any later invocations are infrequent enough and concurrent
hotplug attempts are so unlikely that the danger of user space visible
regressions is very close to zero. Anyway, thats preferrable over a real
deadlock.


Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170524081548.691198590@linutronix.de
2017-05-26 10:10:43 +02:00
Documentation Staging driver fixes for 4.12-rc2 2017-05-20 09:02:27 -07:00
arch perf/x86/intel: Drop get_online_cpus() in intel_snb_check_microcode() 2017-05-26 10:10:43 +02:00
block Merge branch 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm 2017-05-12 15:43:10 -07:00
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drivers PCI: Use cpu_hotplug_disable() instead of get_online_cpus() 2017-05-26 10:10:43 +02:00
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kernel cpu/hotplug: Use stop_machine_cpuslocked() in takedown_cpu() 2017-05-26 10:10:42 +02:00
lib dmaengine updates for 4.12-rc1 2017-05-09 15:40:28 -07:00
mm mm: vmscan: scan until it finds eligible pages 2017-05-12 15:57:16 -07:00
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samples samples/bpf: run cleanup routines when receiving SIGTERM 2017-05-11 21:43:30 -04:00
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sound drm/i915: Fix runtime PM for LPE audio 2017-05-15 14:44:11 +03:00
tools This fixes a bug caused by not cleaning up the new instance unique triggers 2017-05-20 23:39:03 -07:00
usr initramfs: provide a way to ignore image provided by bootloader 2017-05-08 17:15:12 -07:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: Hold slots_lock when unregistering kvm io bus devices 2017-05-18 11:18:16 +02:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.