[PATCHv5 2/2] powerpc/pseries: update device tree before ejecting hotplug uevents
Pingfan Liu
kernelfans at gmail.com
Fri Aug 28 04:10:09 EDT 2020
On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 3:53 PM Laurent Dufour <ldufour at linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Le 10/08/2020 à 10:52, Pingfan Liu a écrit :
> > A bug is observed on pseries by taking the following steps on rhel:
> > -1. drmgr -c mem -r -q 5
> > -2. echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger
> >
> > And then, the failure looks like:
> > kdump: saving to /sysroot//var/crash/127.0.0.1-2020-01-16-02:06:14/
> > kdump: saving vmcore-dmesg.txt
> > kdump: saving vmcore-dmesg.txt complete
> > kdump: saving vmcore
> > Checking for memory holes : [ 0.0 %] / Checking for memory holes : [100.0 %] | Excluding unnecessary pages : [100.0 %] \ Copying data : [ 0.3 %] - eta: 38s[ 44.337636] hash-mmu: mm: Hashing failure ! EA=0x7fffba400000 access=0x8000000000000004 current=makedumpfile
> > [ 44.337663] hash-mmu: trap=0x300 vsid=0x13a109c ssize=1 base psize=2 psize 2 pte=0xc000000050000504
> > [ 44.337677] hash-mmu: mm: Hashing failure ! EA=0x7fffba400000 access=0x8000000000000004 current=makedumpfile
> > [ 44.337692] hash-mmu: trap=0x300 vsid=0x13a109c ssize=1 base psize=2 psize 2 pte=0xc000000050000504
> > [ 44.337708] makedumpfile[469]: unhandled signal 7 at 00007fffba400000 nip 00007fffbbc4d7fc lr 000000011356ca3c code 2
> > [ 44.338548] Core dump to |/bin/false pipe failed
> > /lib/kdump-lib-initramfs.sh: line 98: 469 Bus error $CORE_COLLECTOR /proc/vmcore $_mp/$KDUMP_PATH/$HOST_IP-$DATEDIR/vmcore-incomplete
> > kdump: saving vmcore failed
> >
> > * Root cause *
> > After analyzing, it turns out that in the current implementation,
> > when hot-removing lmb, the KOBJ_REMOVE event ejects before the dt updating as
> > the code __remove_memory() comes before drmem_update_dt().
> > So in kdump kernel, when read_from_oldmem() resorts to
> > pSeries_lpar_hpte_insert() to install hpte, but fails with -2 due to
> > non-exist pfn. And finally, low_hash_fault() raise SIGBUS to process, as it
> > can be observed "Bus error"
> >
> > From a viewpoint of listener and publisher, the publisher notifies the
> > listener before data is ready. This introduces a problem where udev
> > launches kexec-tools (due to KOBJ_REMOVE) and loads a stale dt before
> > updating. And in capture kernel, makedumpfile will access the memory based
> > on the stale dt info, and hit a SIGBUS error due to an un-existed lmb.
> >
> > * Fix *
> > This bug is introduced by commit 063b8b1251fd
> > ("powerpc/pseries/memory-hotplug: Only update DT once per memory DLPAR
> > request"), which tried to combine all the dt updating into one.
> >
> > To fix this issue, meanwhile not to introduce a quadratic runtime
> > complexity by the model:
> > dlpar_memory_add_by_count
> > for_each_drmem_lmb <--
> > dlpar_add_lmb
> > drmem_update_dt(_v1|_v2)
> > for_each_drmem_lmb <--
> > The dt should still be only updated once, and just before the last memory
> > online/offline event is ejected to user space. Achieve this by tracing the
> > num of lmb added or removed.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans at gmail.com>
> > Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
> > Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini at linux.ibm.com>
> > Cc: Nathan Lynch <nathanl at linux.ibm.com>
> > Cc: Nathan Fontenot <nfont at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > Cc: Laurent Dufour <ldufour at linux.ibm.com>
> > To: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> > Cc: kexec at lists.infradead.org
> > ---
> > v4 -> v5: change dlpar_add_lmb()/dlpar_remove_lmb() prototype to report
> > whether dt is updated successfully.
> > Fix a condition boundary check bug
> > v3 -> v4: resolve a quadratic runtime complexity issue.
> > This series is applied on next-test branch
> > arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c | 102 +++++++++++++++++++-----
> > 1 file changed, 80 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c
> > index 46cbcd1..1567d9f 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c
> > @@ -350,13 +350,22 @@ static bool lmb_is_removable(struct drmem_lmb *lmb)
> > return true;
> > }
> >
> > -static int dlpar_add_lmb(struct drmem_lmb *);
> > +enum dt_update_status {
> > + DT_NOUPDATE,
> > + DT_TOUPDATE,
> > + DT_UPDATED,
> > +};
> > +
> > +/* "*dt_update" returns DT_UPDATED if updated */
> > +static int dlpar_add_lmb(struct drmem_lmb *lmb,
> > + enum dt_update_status *dt_update);
> >
> > -static int dlpar_remove_lmb(struct drmem_lmb *lmb)
> > +static int dlpar_remove_lmb(struct drmem_lmb *lmb,
> > + enum dt_update_status *dt_update)
> > {
> > unsigned long block_sz;
> > phys_addr_t base_addr;
> > - int rc, nid;
> > + int rc, ret, nid;
> >
> > if (!lmb_is_removable(lmb))
> > return -EINVAL;
> > @@ -372,6 +381,13 @@ static int dlpar_remove_lmb(struct drmem_lmb *lmb)
> > invalidate_lmb_associativity_index(lmb);
> > lmb_clear_nid(lmb);
> > lmb->flags &= ~DRCONF_MEM_ASSIGNED;
> > + if (*dt_update) {
Original, I plan to use it to exclude the case of DT_NOUPDATE, which is value 0.
And I think it looks better by using if (*dt_update == DT_TOUPDATE)
>
> That test is wrong, you should do:
> if (*dt_update && *dt_update == DT_TOUPDATE) {
I think you mean if (dt_update && *dt_update == DT_TOUPDATE) {
>
> With the current code, the device tree is updated all the time.
>
> Another option would be to pass a valid pointer (!= NULL) only when DT update is
> required, this way you don't need the DT_TOUPDATE value. The caller would have
> to set the pointer accordingly. The advantage with this option is the caller is
> guaranteed that its variable is not touched by the callee when no device tree is
> requested. A simple boolean pointer would be enough without the need to this enum.
It is expected that dlpar_remove_lmb/dlpar_add_lmb can report whether
they successfully update dt or not. So the caller can handle the
different cases.
Thanks,
Pingfan
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