linux/arch/powerpc
Li Zhong 42dbfc8649 powerpc/pseries: Protect remove_memory() with device hotplug lock
While testing memory hot-remove, I found following dead lock:

Process #1141 is drmgr, trying to remove some memory, i.e. memory499.
It holds the memory_hotplug_mutex, and blocks when trying to remove file
"online" under dir memory499, in kernfs_drain(), at
        wait_event(root->deactivate_waitq,
                   atomic_read(&kn->active) == KN_DEACTIVATED_BIAS);

Process #1120 is trying to online memory499 by
   echo 1 > memory499/online

In .kernfs_fop_write, it uses kernfs_get_active() to increase
&kn->active, thus blocking process #1141. While itself is blocked later
when trying to acquire memory_hotplug_mutex, which is held by process

The backtrace of both processes are shown below:

[<c000000001b18600>] 0xc000000001b18600
[<c000000000015044>] .__switch_to+0x144/0x200
[<c000000000263ca4>] .online_pages+0x74/0x7b0
[<c00000000055b40c>] .memory_subsys_online+0x9c/0x150
[<c00000000053cbe8>] .device_online+0xb8/0x120
[<c00000000053cd04>] .online_store+0xb4/0xc0
[<c000000000538ce4>] .dev_attr_store+0x64/0xa0
[<c00000000030f4ec>] .sysfs_kf_write+0x7c/0xb0
[<c00000000030e574>] .kernfs_fop_write+0x154/0x1e0
[<c000000000268450>] .vfs_write+0xe0/0x260
[<c000000000269144>] .SyS_write+0x64/0x110
[<c000000000009ffc>] syscall_exit+0x0/0x7c

[<c000000001b18600>] 0xc000000001b18600
[<c000000000015044>] .__switch_to+0x144/0x200
[<c00000000030be14>] .__kernfs_remove+0x204/0x300
[<c00000000030d428>] .kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x68/0xf0
[<c00000000030fb38>] .sysfs_remove_file_ns+0x38/0x60
[<c000000000539354>] .device_remove_attrs+0x54/0xc0
[<c000000000539fd8>] .device_del+0x158/0x250
[<c00000000053a104>] .device_unregister+0x34/0xa0
[<c00000000055bc14>] .unregister_memory_section+0x164/0x170
[<c00000000024ee18>] .__remove_pages+0x108/0x4c0
[<c00000000004b590>] .arch_remove_memory+0x60/0xc0
[<c00000000026446c>] .remove_memory+0x8c/0xe0
[<c00000000007f9f4>] .pseries_remove_memblock+0xd4/0x160
[<c00000000007fcfc>] .pseries_memory_notifier+0x27c/0x290
[<c0000000008ae6cc>] .notifier_call_chain+0x8c/0x100
[<c0000000000d858c>] .__blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x6c/0xe0
[<c00000000071ddec>] .of_property_notify+0x7c/0xc0
[<c00000000071ed3c>] .of_update_property+0x3c/0x1b0
[<c0000000000756cc>] .ofdt_write+0x3dc/0x740
[<c0000000002f60fc>] .proc_reg_write+0xac/0x110
[<c000000000268450>] .vfs_write+0xe0/0x260
[<c000000000269144>] .SyS_write+0x64/0x110
[<c000000000009ffc>] syscall_exit+0x0/0x7c

This patch uses lock_device_hotplug() to protect remove_memory() called
in pseries_remove_memblock(), which is also stated before function
remove_memory():

 * NOTE: The caller must call lock_device_hotplug() to serialize hotplug
 * and online/offline operations before this call, as required by
 * try_offline_node().
 */
void __ref remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size)

With this lock held, the other process(#1120 above) trying to online the
memory block will retry the system call when calling
lock_device_hotplug_sysfs(), and finally find No such device error.

Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2014-04-28 16:32:14 +10:00
..
boot powerpc: Bump BOOT_COMMAND_LINE_SIZE to 2048 2014-04-28 16:32:02 +10:00
configs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-04-12 14:49:50 -07:00
crypto powerpc: Fix compile of sha1-powerpc-asm.S on 32-bit 2013-03-05 16:56:26 +11:00
include powerpc: Bump COMMAND_LINE_SIZE to 2048 2014-04-28 16:31:58 +10:00
kernel powerpc: Fix error return in rtas_flash module init 2014-04-28 16:32:07 +10:00
kvm Merge tag 'kvm-3.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm 2014-04-02 14:50:10 -07:00
lib selftests/powerpc: Import Anton's memcpy / copy_tofrom_user tests 2014-03-07 15:53:12 +11:00
math-emu powerpc: Correct emulated mtfsf instruction 2014-04-07 10:33:11 +10:00
mm powerpc/mm: Fix tlbie to add AVAL fields for 64K pages 2014-04-28 13:11:24 +10:00
net net: filter: add jited flag to indicate jit compiled filters 2014-03-31 00:45:08 -04:00
oprofile cpufreq: remove unused notifier: CPUFREQ_{SUSPENDCHANGE|RESUMECHANGE} 2014-03-19 14:10:24 +01:00
perf powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Catalog version number is be64, not be32 2014-04-28 16:31:50 +10:00
platforms powerpc/pseries: Protect remove_memory() with device hotplug lock 2014-04-28 16:32:14 +10:00
sysdev Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc 2014-04-09 08:35:31 -07:00
xmon powerpc: Fix xmon disassembler for little-endian 2014-03-07 15:50:12 +11:00
Kconfig Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit 2014-04-12 12:38:53 -07:00
Kconfig.debug Merge branch 'kconfig-diet' from Dave Hansen 2013-07-04 11:25:51 -07:00
Makefile powerpc/le: Avoid creatng R_PPC64_TOCSAVE relocations for modules. 2014-04-09 12:53:44 +10:00
relocs_check.pl Fix warning typo "CONFIG_RELCOATABLE" 2013-05-29 15:11:30 +02:00