Eric reported that handling corresponding crash hotplug event can be
failed easily when many memory hotplug event are notified in a short
period. They failed because failing to take __kexec_lock.
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[ 78.714569] Fallback order for Node 0: 0
[ 78.714575] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 1817886
[ 78.717133] Policy zone: Normal
[ 78.724423] crash hp: kexec_trylock() failed, elfcorehdr may be inaccurate
[ 78.727207] crash hp: kexec_trylock() failed, elfcorehdr may be inaccurate
[ 80.056643] PEFILE: Unsigned PE binary
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The memory hotplug events are notified very quickly and very many,
while the handling of crash hotplug is much slower relatively. So the
atomic variable __kexec_lock and kexec_trylock() can't guarantee the
serialization of crash hotplug handling.
Here, add a new mutex lock __crash_hotplug_lock to serialize crash
hotplug handling specifically. This doesn't impact the usage of
__kexec_lock.
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v1->v2:
- Move mutex lock definition into CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG ifdeffery
scope in kernel/crash_core.c because the lock is only needed and
used in that scope. Suggested by Eric.
kernel/crash_core.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/crash_core.c b/kernel/crash_core.c
index 03a7932cde0a..5951d6366b72 100644
--- a/kernel/crash_core.c
+++ b/kernel/crash_core.c
@@ -739,6 +739,17 @@ subsys_initcall(crash_notes_memory_init);
#undef pr_fmt
#define pr_fmt(fmt) "crash hp: " fmt
+/*
+ * Different than kexec/kdump loading/unloading/jumping/shrinking which
+ * usually rarely happen, there will be many crash hotplug events notified
+ * during one short period, e.g one memory board is hot added and memory
+ * regions are online. So mutex lock __crash_hotplug_lock is used to
+ * serialize the crash hotplug handling specifically.
+ */
+DEFINE_MUTEX(__crash_hotplug_lock);
+#define crash_hotplug_lock() mutex_lock(&__crash_hotplug_lock)
+#define crash_hotplug_unlock() mutex_unlock(&__crash_hotplug_lock)
+
/*
* This routine utilized when the crash_hotplug sysfs node is read.
* It reflects the kernel's ability/permission to update the crash
@@ -783,9 +794,11 @@ static void crash_handle_hotplug_event(unsigned int hp_action, unsigned int cpu)
{
struct kimage *image;
+ crash_hotplug_lock();
/* Obtain lock while changing crash information */
if (!kexec_trylock()) {
pr_info("kexec_trylock() failed, elfcorehdr may be inaccurate\n");
+ crash_hotplug_unlock();
return;
}
@@ -852,6 +865,7 @@ static void crash_handle_hotplug_event(unsigned int hp_action, unsigned int cpu)
out:
/* Release lock now that update complete */
kexec_unlock();
+ crash_hotplug_unlock();
}
static int crash_memhp_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long val, void *v)
--
2.41.0
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