[PATCH V4 2/3] arm64/mm/hotplug: Enable MEM_OFFLINE event handling

Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Tue Sep 29 09:54:46 EDT 2020


This enables MEM_OFFLINE memory event handling. It will help intercept any
possible error condition such as if boot memory some how still got offlined
even after an explicit notifier failure, potentially by a future change in
generic hot plug framework. This would help detect such scenarios and help
debug further. While here, also call out the first section being attempted
for offline or got offlined.

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper at arm.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index 4e70f4fea06c..90a30f5ebfc0 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -1482,13 +1482,38 @@ static int prevent_bootmem_remove_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb,
 	unsigned long end_pfn = arg->start_pfn + arg->nr_pages;
 	unsigned long pfn = arg->start_pfn;
 
-	if (action != MEM_GOING_OFFLINE)
+	if ((action != MEM_GOING_OFFLINE) && (action != MEM_OFFLINE))
 		return NOTIFY_OK;
 
 	for (; pfn < end_pfn; pfn += PAGES_PER_SECTION) {
+		unsigned long start = PFN_PHYS(pfn);
+		unsigned long end = start + (1UL << PA_SECTION_SHIFT);
+
 		ms = __pfn_to_section(pfn);
-		if (early_section(ms))
+		if (!early_section(ms))
+			continue;
+
+		if (action == MEM_GOING_OFFLINE) {
+			pr_warn("Boot memory [%lx %lx] offlining attempted\n", start, end);
 			return NOTIFY_BAD;
+		} else if (action == MEM_OFFLINE) {
+			/*
+			 * This should have never happened. Boot memory
+			 * offlining should have been prevented by this
+			 * very notifier. Probably some memory removal
+			 * procedure might have changed which would then
+			 * require further debug.
+			 */
+			pr_err("Boot memory [%lx %lx] offlined\n", start, end);
+
+			/*
+			 * Core memory hotplug does not process a return
+			 * code from the notifier for MEM_OFFLINE event.
+			 * Error condition has been reported. Report as
+			 * ignored.
+			 */
+			return NOTIFY_DONE;
+		}
 	}
 	return NOTIFY_OK;
 }
-- 
2.20.1




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