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mm/memory_hotplug: make remove_memory() take the device_hotplug_lock
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Patch series "mm: online/offline_pages called w.o. mem_hotplug_lock", v3.

Reading through the code and studying how mem_hotplug_lock is to be used,
I noticed that there are two places where we can end up calling
device_online()/device_offline() - online_pages()/offline_pages() without
the mem_hotplug_lock.  And there are other places where we call
device_online()/device_offline() without the device_hotplug_lock.

While e.g.
	echo "online" > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory9/state
is fine, e.g.
	echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory9/online
Will not take the mem_hotplug_lock. However the device_lock() and
device_hotplug_lock.

E.g.  via memory_probe_store(), we can end up calling
add_memory()->online_pages() without the device_hotplug_lock.  So we can
have concurrent callers in online_pages().  We e.g.  touch in
online_pages() basically unprotected zone->present_pages then.

Looks like there is a longer history to that (see Patch #2 for details),
and fixing it to work the way it was intended is not really possible.  We
would e.g.  have to take the mem_hotplug_lock in device/base/core.c, which
sounds wrong.

Summary: We had a lock inversion on mem_hotplug_lock and device_lock().
More details can be found in patch 3 and patch 6.

I propose the general rules (documentation added in patch 6):

1. add_memory/add_memory_resource() must only be called with
   device_hotplug_lock.
2. remove_memory() must only be called with device_hotplug_lock. This is
   already documented and holds for all callers.
3. device_online()/device_offline() must only be called with
   device_hotplug_lock. This is already documented and true for now in core
   code. Other callers (related to memory hotplug) have to be fixed up.
4. mem_hotplug_lock is taken inside of add_memory/remove_memory/
   online_pages/offline_pages.

To me, this looks way cleaner than what we have right now (and easier to
verify).  And looking at the documentation of remove_memory, using
lock_device_hotplug also for add_memory() feels natural.

This patch (of 6):

remove_memory() is exported right now but requires the
device_hotplug_lock, which is not exported.  So let's provide a variant
that takes the lock and only export that one.

The lock is already held in
	arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c
	drivers/acpi/acpi_memhotplug.c
	arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/memtrace.c

Apart from that, there are not other users in the tree.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Rashmica Gupta <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]>
Cc: Len Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Rashmica Gupta <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Neuling <[email protected]>
Cc: Balbir Singh <[email protected]>
Cc: Nathan Fontenot <[email protected]>
Cc: John Allen <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: YASUAKI ISHIMATSU <[email protected]>
Cc: Mathieu Malaterre <[email protected]>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <[email protected]>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
Cc: Kate Stewart <[email protected]>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <[email protected]>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/memtrace.c
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Expand Up @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ static u64 memtrace_alloc_node(u32 nid, u64 size)
lock_device_hotplug();
end_pfn = base_pfn + nr_pages;
for (pfn = base_pfn; pfn < end_pfn; pfn += bytes>> PAGE_SHIFT) {
remove_memory(nid, pfn << PAGE_SHIFT, bytes);
__remove_memory(nid, pfn << PAGE_SHIFT, bytes);
}
unlock_device_hotplug();
return base_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT;
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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c
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Expand Up @@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ static int pseries_remove_memblock(unsigned long base, unsigned int memblock_siz
nid = memory_add_physaddr_to_nid(base);

for (i = 0; i < sections_per_block; i++) {
remove_memory(nid, base, MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE);
__remove_memory(nid, base, MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE);
base += MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE;
}

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ static int dlpar_remove_lmb(struct drmem_lmb *lmb)
block_sz = pseries_memory_block_size();
nid = memory_add_physaddr_to_nid(lmb->base_addr);

remove_memory(nid, lmb->base_addr, block_sz);
__remove_memory(nid, lmb->base_addr, block_sz);

/* Update memory regions for memory remove */
memblock_remove(lmb->base_addr, block_sz);
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ static int dlpar_add_lmb(struct drmem_lmb *lmb)

rc = dlpar_online_lmb(lmb);
if (rc) {
remove_memory(nid, lmb->base_addr, block_sz);
__remove_memory(nid, lmb->base_addr, block_sz);
invalidate_lmb_associativity_index(lmb);
} else {
lmb->flags |= DRCONF_MEM_ASSIGNED;
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion drivers/acpi/acpi_memhotplug.c
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Expand Up @@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ static void acpi_memory_remove_memory(struct acpi_memory_device *mem_device)
nid = memory_add_physaddr_to_nid(info->start_addr);

acpi_unbind_memory_blocks(info);
remove_memory(nid, info->start_addr, info->length);
__remove_memory(nid, info->start_addr, info->length);
list_del(&info->list);
kfree(info);
}
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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
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Expand Up @@ -301,6 +301,7 @@ extern bool is_mem_section_removable(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages);
extern void try_offline_node(int nid);
extern int offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages);
extern void remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size);
extern void __remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size);

#else
static inline bool is_mem_section_removable(unsigned long pfn,
Expand All @@ -317,6 +318,7 @@ static inline int offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages)
}

static inline void remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size) {}
static inline void __remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size) {}
#endif /* CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE */

extern void __ref free_area_init_core_hotplug(int nid);
Expand All @@ -330,7 +332,6 @@ extern void move_pfn_range_to_zone(struct zone *zone, unsigned long start_pfn,
unsigned long nr_pages, struct vmem_altmap *altmap);
extern int offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages);
extern bool is_memblock_offlined(struct memory_block *mem);
extern void remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size);
extern int sparse_add_one_section(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
unsigned long start_pfn, struct vmem_altmap *altmap);
extern void sparse_remove_one_section(struct zone *zone, struct mem_section *ms,
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9 changes: 8 additions & 1 deletion mm/memory_hotplug.c
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Expand Up @@ -1806,7 +1806,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(try_offline_node);
* and online/offline operations before this call, as required by
* try_offline_node().
*/
void __ref remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size)
void __ref __remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size)
{
int ret;

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1835,5 +1835,12 @@ void __ref remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size)

mem_hotplug_done();
}

void remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size)
{
lock_device_hotplug();
__remove_memory(nid, start, size);
unlock_device_hotplug();
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(remove_memory);
#endif /* CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE */

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