Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] memory-hotplug: Fix kernel warning during memory hotplug on ppc64

From: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2015 13:13:18 -0800 (PST)

On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 11:21:59 -0600
John Allen <[email-masked]> wrote:

> This patch fixes a bug where a kernel warning is triggered when performing
> a memory hotplug on ppc64. This warning may also occur on any architecture
> that has multiple sections per memory block.
> 
> [   78.300767] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [   78.300768] WARNING: at ../drivers/base/memory.c:210
> [   78.300769] Modules linked in: rpadlpar_io(X) rpaphp(X) tcp_diag udp_diag inet_diag unix_diag af_packet_diag netlink_diag af_packet xfs libcrc32c ibmveth(X) rtc_generic btrfs xor raid6_pq xts gf128mul dm_crypt sd_mod sr_mod cdrom crc_t10dif ibmvscsi(X) scsi_transport_srp scsi_tgt dm_mod sg scsi_mod autofs4
> [   78.300789] Supported: Yes, External
> [   78.300791] CPU: 1 PID: 3090 Comm: systemd-udevd Tainted: G              X 3.12.45-1-default #1
> [   78.300793] task: c0000004d7d1d970 ti: c0000004d7b90000 task.ti: c0000004d7b90000
> [   78.300794] NIP: c0000000004fcff8 LR: c0000000004fda84 CTR: 0000000000000000
> [   78.300795] REGS: c0000004d7b93930 TRAP: 0700   Tainted: G              X  (3.12.45-1-default)
> [   78.300796] MSR: 8000000000029033 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 24088848  XER: 00000000
> [   78.300800] CFAR: c0000000004fcf98 SOFTE: 1
> GPR00: 0000000000000537 c0000004d7b93bb0 c000000000e7f200 0000000000053000
> GPR04: 0000000000001000 0000000000000001 c000000000e0f200 0000000000000000
> GPR08: 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 0000000000000537 00000000014dc000
> GPR12: 0000000000054000 c00000000e7f0900 0000000010041040 0000000000000000
> GPR16: 00000100206f0010 000000001003ff78 000000001006c824 00000000100410b0
> GPR20: 000000001003ff90 000000001006c00c 000001002073cd20 00000100206f0760
> GPR24: 00000100206f85a0 c00000000076d950 c0000004ef7c95e0 c0000004d7b93e00
> GPR28: c0000004de601738 0000000000000001 c000000001218f80 00000000003fffff
> [   78.300818] NIP [c0000000004fcff8] memory_block_action+0x258/0x2e0
> [   78.300820] LR [c0000000004fda84] memory_subsys_online+0x54/0x100
> [   78.300821] Call Trace:
> [   78.300822] [c0000004d7b93bb0] [c000000009071ce0] 0xc000000009071ce0 (unreliable)
> [   78.300824] [c0000004d7b93c40] [c0000000004fda84] memory_subsys_online+0x54/0x100
> [   78.300826] [c0000004d7b93c70] [c0000000004df784] device_online+0xb4/0x120
> [   78.300828] [c0000004d7b93cb0] [c0000000004fd738] store_mem_state+0x88/0x220
> [   78.300830] [c0000004d7b93cf0] [c0000000004db448] dev_attr_store+0x68/0xa0
> [   78.300833] [c0000004d7b93d30] [c00000000031f938] sysfs_write_file+0xf8/0x1d0
> [   78.300835] [c0000004d7b93d90] [c00000000027d29c] vfs_write+0xec/0x250
> [   78.300837] [c0000004d7b93de0] [c00000000027dfdc] SyS_write+0x6c/0xf0
> [   78.300839] [c0000004d7b93e30] [c00000000000a17c] syscall_exit+0x0/0x7c
> [   78.300840] Instruction dump:
> [   78.300841] 780a0560 79482ea4 7ce94214 2fa70000 41de0014 7d09402a 396b4000 7907ffe3
> [   78.300844] 4082ff54 3cc2fff9 8926b83a 69290001 <0b090000> 2fa90000 40de006c 3860fff0
> [   78.300847] ---[ end trace dfec8da06ebbc762 ]---
> 
> The warning is triggered because there is a udev rule that automatically
> tries to online memory after it has been added. The udev rule varies from
> distro to distro, but will generally look something like:
> 
> SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ACTION=="add", ATTR{state}=="offline", ATTR{state}="online"
> 
> On any architecture that uses memory_probe_store to reserve memory,
> this can interrupt the memory reservation process. This patch modifies
> memory_probe_store to take the hotplug sysfs lock to prevent the online
> of added memory before the completion of the probe.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Allen <[email-masked]>
> ---

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <[email-masked]>

Thanks,
Yasuaki Ishimatsu

> v2: Move call to unlock_device_hotplug under "out" label
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/base/memory.c b/drivers/base/memory.c
> index bece691..7c50415 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/memory.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/memory.c
> @@ -422,6 +422,10 @@ memory_probe_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
>  	if (phys_addr & ((pages_per_block << PAGE_SHIFT) - 1))
>  		return -EINVAL;
> 
> +	ret = lock_device_hotplug_sysfs();
> +	if (ret)
> +		return ret;
> +
>  	for (i = 0; i < sections_per_block; i++) {
>  		nid = memory_add_physaddr_to_nid(phys_addr);
>  		ret = add_memory(nid, phys_addr,
> @@ -434,6 +438,7 @@ memory_probe_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
> 
>  	ret = count;
>  out:
> +	unlock_device_hotplug();
>  	return ret;
>  }
> 
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