powerpc: Only obtain cpu_hotplug_lock if called by rtasd

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Calling arch_update_cpu_topology from a CPU hotplug state machine callback
hits a deadlock because the function tries to get a read lock on
cpu_hotplug_lock while the state machine still holds a write lock on it.

Since all callers of arch_update_cpu_topology except rtasd already hold
cpu_hotplug_lock, this patch changes the function to use
stop_machine_cpuslocked and creates a separate function for rtasd which
still tries to obtain the lock.

Michael Bringmann investigated the bug and provided a detailed analysis
of the deadlock on this previous RFC for an alternate solution:

Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: John Allen <jallen@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Bringmann <mwb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1497996510-4032-1-git-send-email-bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/771293/

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Thiago Jung Bauermann 2017-06-20 19:08:30 -03:00 • committed by Thomas Gleixner

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arch/powerpc/include/asm/topology.h

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arch/powerpc/kernel/rtasd.c

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arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c

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