Re: [PATCH V7 1/3] mm/hotplug: Reorder memblock_[free|remove]() calls in try_remove_memory()
From: Anshuman Khandual <hidden>
Date: 2019-09-18 09:28:36
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On 09/16/2019 07:14 AM, Balbir Singh wrote:
On 3/9/19 7:45 pm, Anshuman Khandual wrote:quoted
Memory hot remove uses get_nid_for_pfn() while tearing down linked sysfsI could not find this path in the code, the only called for get_nid_for_pfn() was register_mem_sect_under_node() when the system is under boot.quoted
entries between memory block and node. It first checks pfn validity with pfn_valid_within() before fetching nid. With CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE config (arm64 has this enabled) pfn_valid_within() calls pfn_valid(). pfn_valid() is an arch implementation on arm64 (CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID) which scans all mapped memblock regions with memblock_is_map_memory(). This creates a problem in memory hot remove path which has already removed given memory range from memory block with memblock_[remove|free] before arriving at unregister_mem_sect_under_nodes(). Hence get_nid_for_pfn() returns -1 skipping subsequent sysfs_remove_link() calls leaving node <-> memory block sysfs entries as is. Subsequent memory add operation hits BUG_ON() because of existing sysfs entries. [ 62.007176] NUMA: Unknown node for memory at 0x680000000, assuming node 0 [ 62.052517] ------------[ cut here ]------------This seems like arm64 is not ready for probe_store() via drivers/base/memory.c/ode.cquoted
[ 62.053211] kernel BUG at mm/memory_hotplug.c:1143!quoted
[ 62.053868] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [ 62.054589] Modules linked in: [ 62.054999] CPU: 19 PID: 3275 Comm: bash Not tainted 5.1.0-rc2-00004-g28cea40b2683 #41 [ 62.056274] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) [ 62.057166] pstate: 40400005 (nZcv daif +PAN -UAO) [ 62.058083] pc : add_memory_resource+0x1cc/0x1d8 [ 62.058961] lr : add_memory_resource+0x10c/0x1d8 [ 62.059842] sp : ffff0000168b3ce0 [ 62.060477] x29: ffff0000168b3ce0 x28: ffff8005db546c00 [ 62.061501] x27: 0000000000000000 x26: 0000000000000000 [ 62.062509] x25: ffff0000111ef000 x24: ffff0000111ef5d0 [ 62.063520] x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 00000006bfffffff [ 62.064540] x21: 00000000ffffffef x20: 00000000006c0000 [ 62.065558] x19: 0000000000680000 x18: 0000000000000024 [ 62.066566] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 [ 62.067579] x15: ffffffffffffffff x14: ffff8005e412e890 [ 62.068588] x13: ffff8005d6b105d8 x12: 0000000000000000 [ 62.069610] x11: ffff8005d6b10490 x10: 0000000000000040 [ 62.070615] x9 : ffff8005e412e898 x8 : ffff8005e412e890 [ 62.071631] x7 : ffff8005d6b105d8 x6 : ffff8005db546c00 [ 62.072640] x5 : 0000000000000001 x4 : 0000000000000002 [ 62.073654] x3 : ffff8005d7049480 x2 : 0000000000000002 [ 62.074666] x1 : 0000000000000003 x0 : 00000000ffffffef [ 62.075685] Process bash (pid: 3275, stack limit = 0x00000000d754280f) [ 62.076930] Call trace: [ 62.077411] add_memory_resource+0x1cc/0x1d8 [ 62.078227] __add_memory+0x70/0xa8 [ 62.078901] probe_store+0xa4/0xc8 [ 62.079561] dev_attr_store+0x18/0x28 [ 62.080270] sysfs_kf_write+0x40/0x58 [ 62.080992] kernfs_fop_write+0xcc/0x1d8 [ 62.081744] __vfs_write+0x18/0x40 [ 62.082400] vfs_write+0xa4/0x1b0 [ 62.083037] ksys_write+0x5c/0xc0 [ 62.083681] __arm64_sys_write+0x18/0x20 [ 62.084432] el0_svc_handler+0x88/0x100 [ 62.085177] el0_svc+0x8/0xc Re-ordering memblock_[free|remove]() with arch_remove_memory() solves the problem on arm64 as pfn_valid() behaves correctly and returns positive as memblock for the address range still exists. arch_remove_memory() removes applicable memory sections from zone with __remove_pages() and tears down kernel linear mapping. Removing memblock regions afterwards is safe because there is no other memblock (bootmem) allocator user that late. So nobody is going to allocate from the removed range just to blow up later. Also nobody should be using the bootmem allocated range else we wouldn't allow to remove it. So reordering is indeed safe. Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <redacted> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <redacted> ---Honestly, the issue is not clear from the changelog, largely because I can't find the use of get_nid_for_pfn() being used in memory hotunplug. I can see why using pfn_valid() after memblock_free/remove is bad on the architecture. I think the checks to pfn_valid() can be avoided from the remove paths if we did the following memblock_isolate_regions() for each isolate_region { memblock_free memblock_remove arch_memory_remove # ensure that __remove_memory can avoid calling pfn_valid } Having said that, your patch is easier and if your assumption about not using the memblocks is valid (after arch_memory_remove()) then might be the least resistant way forward
The context for this patch has changed a bit which now reflects in it's current posting (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11146361/) _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel