On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 09:33 -0700, Mike Mason wrote:

Michael Ellerman wrote:

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On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 14:43 -0700, Mike Mason wrote:

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This patch increments the device_node reference counter when an EEH
error occurs and decrements the counter when the event has been
handled.  This is to prevent the device_node from being released until
eeh_event_handler() has had a chance to deal with the event.  We've
seen cases where the device_node is released too soon when an EEH
event occurs during a dlpar remove, causing the event handler to
attempt to access bad memory locations.

Please review and let me know of any concerns.

Taking a reference sounds sane, but ...

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Signed-off-by: Mike Mason <redacted> 

--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh_event.c	2008-10-09 15:13:53.000000000 -0700
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh_event.c	2009-07-14 14:14:00.000000000 -0700

@@ -75,6 +75,14 @@ static int eeh_event_handler(void * dumm
 	if (event == NULL)
 		return 0;
 
+	/* EEH holds a reference to the device_node, so if it
+	 * equals 1 it's no longer valid and the event should
+	 * be ignored */
+	if (atomic_read(&event->dn->kref.refcount) == 1) {
+		of_node_put(event->dn);
+		return 0;
+	}

That's really gross :)

Agreed.  I'll look for another way to determine if device is gone and
the event should be ignored.  Suggestions are welcome :-)

Benh and I had a quick chat about it, and were wondering whether what
you really should be doing is taking a reference to the pci device
(perhaps as well as the device node).

@@ -140,7 +149,7 @@ int eeh_send_failure_event (struct devic
        if (dev)
                pci_dev_get(dev);
 
-       event->dn = dn;
+       event->dn = of_node_get(dn);
        event->dev = dev;

pci devs are refcounted too, see pci_dev_get(), so taking a reference
there would be the "right" thing to do - otherwise there's no guarantee
it still exists later, unless there's some other trick in the EEH code.

Taking a reference would presumably block a concurrent hotunplug until
you'd processed the EEH event and dropped your reference. That might be
OK, or you could add a hotplug notifier to the EEH code and drop the
reference there and mark the event as handled or something.

All of that with the caveat that I don't really know the EEH or hotplug
code :D

cheers