Re: [PATCH] mm: don't rely on system state to detect hot-plug operations

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On 08.09.20 19:31, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 07:08:35PM +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote:
>> In register_mem_sect_under_node() the system_state’s value is checked to
>> detect whether the operation the call is made during boot time or during an
>> hot-plug operation. Unfortunately, that check is wrong on some
>> architecture, and may lead to sections being registered under multiple
>> nodes if node's memory ranges are interleaved.
>>
>> This can be seen on PowerPC LPAR after multiple memory hot-plug and
>> hot-unplug operations are done. At the next reboot the node's memory ranges
>> can be interleaved and since the call to link_mem_sections() is made in
>> topology_init() while the system is in the SYSTEM_SCHEDULING state, the
>> node's id is not checked, and the sections registered multiple times. In
>> that case, the system is able to boot but later hot-plug operation may lead
>> to this panic because the node's links are correctly broken:
>>
>> ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> kernel BUG at /Users/laurent/src/linux-ppc/mm/memory_hotplug.c:1084!
>> Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]
>> LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries
>> Modules linked in: rpadlpar_io rpaphp pseries_rng rng_core vmx_crypto gf128mul binfmt_misc ip_tables x_tables xfs libcrc32c crc32c_vpmsum autofs4
>> CPU: 8 PID: 10256 Comm: drmgr Not tainted 5.9.0-rc1+ #25
>> NIP:  c000000000403f34 LR: c000000000403f2c CTR: 0000000000000000
>> REGS: c0000004876e3660 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (5.9.0-rc1+)
>> MSR:  800000000282b033 <SF,VEC,VSX,EE,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 24000448  XER: 20040000
>> CFAR: c000000000846d20 IRQMASK: 0
>> GPR00: c000000000403f2c c0000004876e38f0 c0000000012f6f00 ffffffffffffffef
>> GPR04: 0000000000000227 c0000004805ae680 0000000000000000 00000004886f0000
>> GPR08: 0000000000000226 0000000000000003 0000000000000002 fffffffffffffffd
>> GPR12: 0000000088000484 c00000001ec96280 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>> GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000004 0000000000000003
>> GPR20: c00000047814ffe0 c0000007ffff7c08 0000000000000010 c0000000013332c8
>> GPR24: 0000000000000000 c0000000011f6cc0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>> GPR28: ffffffffffffffef 0000000000000001 0000000150000000 0000000010000000
>> NIP [c000000000403f34] add_memory_resource+0x244/0x340
>> LR [c000000000403f2c] add_memory_resource+0x23c/0x340
>> Call Trace:
>> [c0000004876e38f0] [c000000000403f2c] add_memory_resource+0x23c/0x340 (unreliable)
>> [c0000004876e39c0] [c00000000040408c] __add_memory+0x5c/0xf0
>> [c0000004876e39f0] [c0000000000e2b94] dlpar_add_lmb+0x1b4/0x500
>> [c0000004876e3ad0] [c0000000000e3888] dlpar_memory+0x1f8/0xb80
>> [c0000004876e3b60] [c0000000000dc0d0] handle_dlpar_errorlog+0xc0/0x190
>> [c0000004876e3bd0] [c0000000000dc398] dlpar_store+0x198/0x4a0
>> [c0000004876e3c90] [c00000000072e630] kobj_attr_store+0x30/0x50
>> [c0000004876e3cb0] [c00000000051f954] sysfs_kf_write+0x64/0x90
>> [c0000004876e3cd0] [c00000000051ee40] kernfs_fop_write+0x1b0/0x290
>> [c0000004876e3d20] [c000000000438dd8] vfs_write+0xe8/0x290
>> [c0000004876e3d70] [c0000000004391ac] ksys_write+0xdc/0x130
>> [c0000004876e3dc0] [c000000000034e40] system_call_exception+0x160/0x270
>> [c0000004876e3e20] [c00000000000d740] system_call_common+0xf0/0x27c
>> Instruction dump:
>> 48442e35 60000000 0b030000 3cbe0001 7fa3eb78 7bc48402 38a5fffe 7ca5fa14
>> 78a58402 48442db1 60000000 7c7c1b78 <0b030000> 7f23cb78 4bda371d 60000000
>> ---[ end trace 562fd6c109cd0fb2 ]---
>>
>> This patch addresses the root cause by not relying on the system_state
>> value to detect whether the call is due to a hot-plug operation or not. An
>> additional parameter is added to link_mem_sections() to tell the context of
>> the call and this parameter is propagated to register_mem_sect_under_node()
>> throuugh the walk_memory_blocks()'s call.
>>
>> Fixes: 4fbce633910e ("mm/memory_hotplug.c: make register_mem_sect_under_node() a callback of walk_memory_range()")
>> Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  drivers/base/node.c  | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
>>  include/linux/node.h |  6 +++---
>>  mm/memory_hotplug.c  |  3 ++-
>>  3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/base/node.c b/drivers/base/node.c
>> index 508b80f6329b..27f828eeb531 100644
>> --- a/drivers/base/node.c
>> +++ b/drivers/base/node.c
>> @@ -762,14 +762,19 @@ static int __ref get_nid_for_pfn(unsigned long pfn)
>>  }
>>  
>>  /* register memory section under specified node if it spans that node */
>> +struct rmsun_args {
>> +	int	nid;
>> +	bool	hotadd;
>> +};
>>  static int register_mem_sect_under_node(struct memory_block *mem_blk,
>> -					 void *arg)
>> +					void *args)
>>  {
>>  	unsigned long memory_block_pfns = memory_block_size_bytes() / PAGE_SIZE;
>>  	unsigned long start_pfn = section_nr_to_pfn(mem_blk->start_section_nr);
>>  	unsigned long end_pfn = start_pfn + memory_block_pfns - 1;
>> -	int ret, nid = *(int *)arg;
>> +	int ret, nid = ((struct rmsun_args *)args)->nid;
>>  	unsigned long pfn;
>> +	bool hotadd = ((struct rmsun_args *)args)->hotadd;
>>  
>>  	for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn <= end_pfn; pfn++) {
>>  		int page_nid;
>> @@ -789,7 +794,7 @@ static int register_mem_sect_under_node(struct memory_block *mem_blk,
>>  		 * case, during hotplug we know that all pages in the memory
>>  		 * block belong to the same node.
>>  		 */
>> -		if (system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING) {
>> +		if (!hotadd) {
>>  			page_nid = get_nid_for_pfn(pfn);
>>  			if (page_nid < 0)
>>  				continue;
>> @@ -832,10 +837,15 @@ void unregister_memory_block_under_nodes(struct memory_block *mem_blk)
>>  			  kobject_name(&node_devices[mem_blk->nid]->dev.kobj));
>>  }
>>  
>> -int link_mem_sections(int nid, unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
>> +int link_mem_sections(int nid, unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn,
>> +		      bool hotadd)
>>  {
>> +	struct rmsun_args args;
>> +
>> +	args.nid = nid;
>> +	args.hotadd = hotadd;
>>  	return walk_memory_blocks(PFN_PHYS(start_pfn),
>> -				  PFN_PHYS(end_pfn - start_pfn), (void *)&nid,
>> +				  PFN_PHYS(end_pfn - start_pfn), (void *)&args,
>>  				  register_mem_sect_under_node);
>>  }
>>  
>> diff --git a/include/linux/node.h b/include/linux/node.h
>> index 4866f32a02d8..6df9a4548650 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/node.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/node.h
>> @@ -100,10 +100,10 @@ typedef  void (*node_registration_func_t)(struct node *);
>>  
>>  #if defined(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE) && defined(CONFIG_NUMA)
>>  extern int link_mem_sections(int nid, unsigned long start_pfn,
>> -			     unsigned long end_pfn);
>> +			     unsigned long end_pfn, bool hotadd);
>>  #else
>>  static inline int link_mem_sections(int nid, unsigned long start_pfn,
>> -				    unsigned long end_pfn)
>> +				    unsigned long end_pfn, bool hotadd)
> 
> Adding a random boolean flag to a function is a horrible way to do
> anything.
> 
> Now you need to look up what that flag means every time you run across a
> caller, breaking your reading of what is happening.
> 
> Make this two different functions please, that describe what they do,
> and have them call a common "helper function" that does the work with
> the flag if you really want to do this type of thing.
> 
> link_mem_sections() and link_mem_sections_hotadd()?
> 
> But not this way, please no.

For memmap_init_zone() we solved it via an enum with MEMMAP_HOTPLUG vs
MEMMAP_EARLY. Maybe we can generalize, because it tries to tackle
roughly the same thing.

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 


-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb




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