Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Heiko Carstens <> | Subject | [PATCH 1/2] mm: add private lock to serialize memory hotplug operations | Date | Thu, 9 Mar 2017 14:06:15 +0100 |
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Commit bfc8c90139eb ("mem-hotplug: implement get/put_online_mems") introduced new functions get/put_online_mems() and mem_hotplug_begin/end() in order to allow similar semantics for memory hotplug like for cpu hotplug.
The corresponding functions for cpu hotplug are get/put_online_cpus() and cpu_hotplug_begin/done() for cpu hotplug.
The commit however missed to introduce functions that would serialize memory hotplug operations like they are done for cpu hotplug with cpu_maps_update_begin/done().
This basically leaves mem_hotplug.active_writer unprotected and allows concurrent writers to modify it, which may lead to problems as outlined by commit f931ab479dd2 ("mm: fix devm_memremap_pages crash, use mem_hotplug_{begin, done}").
That commit was extended again with commit b5d24fda9c3d ("mm, devm_memremap_pages: hold device_hotplug lock over mem_hotplug_{begin, done}") which serializes memory hotplug operations for some call sites by using the device_hotplug lock.
In addition with commit 3fc21924100b ("mm: validate device_hotplug is held for memory hotplug") a sanity check was added to mem_hotplug_begin() to verify that the device_hotplug lock is held.
This in turn triggers the following warning on s390:
WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 1 at drivers/base/core.c:643 assert_held_device_hotplug+0x4a/0x58 Call Trace: assert_held_device_hotplug+0x40/0x58) mem_hotplug_begin+0x34/0xc8 add_memory_resource+0x7e/0x1f8 add_memory+0xda/0x130 add_memory_merged+0x15c/0x178 sclp_detect_standby_memory+0x2ae/0x2f8 do_one_initcall+0xa2/0x150 kernel_init_freeable+0x228/0x2d8 kernel_init+0x2a/0x140 kernel_thread_starter+0x6/0xc
One possible fix would be to add more lock_device_hotplug() and unlock_device_hotplug() calls around each call site of mem_hotplug_begin/end(). But that would give the device_hotplug lock additional semantics it better should not have (serialize memory hotplug operations).
Instead add a new memory_add_remove_lock which has the similar semantics like cpu_add_remove_lock for cpu hotplug.
To keep things hopefully a bit easier the lock will be locked and unlocked within the mem_hotplug_begin/end() functions.
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Reported-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> --- kernel/memremap.c | 4 ---- mm/memory_hotplug.c | 6 +++++- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/memremap.c b/kernel/memremap.c index 06123234f118..07e85e5229da 100644 --- a/kernel/memremap.c +++ b/kernel/memremap.c @@ -247,11 +247,9 @@ static void devm_memremap_pages_release(struct device *dev, void *data) align_start = res->start & ~(SECTION_SIZE - 1); align_size = ALIGN(resource_size(res), SECTION_SIZE); - lock_device_hotplug(); mem_hotplug_begin(); arch_remove_memory(align_start, align_size); mem_hotplug_done(); - unlock_device_hotplug(); untrack_pfn(NULL, PHYS_PFN(align_start), align_size); pgmap_radix_release(res); @@ -364,11 +362,9 @@ void *devm_memremap_pages(struct device *dev, struct resource *res, if (error) goto err_pfn_remap; - lock_device_hotplug(); mem_hotplug_begin(); error = arch_add_memory(nid, align_start, align_size, true); mem_hotplug_done(); - unlock_device_hotplug(); if (error) goto err_add_memory; diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c index 295479b792ec..6fa7208bcd56 100644 --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c @@ -125,9 +125,12 @@ void put_online_mems(void) } +/* Serializes write accesses to mem_hotplug.active_writer. */ +static DEFINE_MUTEX(memory_add_remove_lock); + void mem_hotplug_begin(void) { - assert_held_device_hotplug(); + mutex_lock(&memory_add_remove_lock); mem_hotplug.active_writer = current; @@ -147,6 +150,7 @@ void mem_hotplug_done(void) mem_hotplug.active_writer = NULL; mutex_unlock(&mem_hotplug.lock); memhp_lock_release(); + mutex_unlock(&memory_add_remove_lock); } /* add this memory to iomem resource */ -- 2.8.4
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