[PATCH 2/2] powerpc/pseries: update device tree before ejecting hotplug uevents

[Pingfan Liu]

A bug is observed on pseries by taking the following steps on rhel:
-1. drmgr -c mem -r -q 5
-2. echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger

And then, the failure looks like:
kdump: saving to /sysroot//var/crash/127.0.0.1-2020-01-16-02:06:14/
kdump: saving vmcore-dmesg.txt
kdump: saving vmcore-dmesg.txt complete
kdump: saving vmcore
 Checking for memory holes                         : [  0.0 %] /                   Checking for memory holes                         : [100.0 %] |                   Excluding unnecessary pages                       : [100.0 %] \                   Copying data                                      : [  0.3 %] -          eta: 38s[   44.337636] hash-mmu: mm: Hashing failure ! EA=0x7fffba400000 access=0x8000000000000004 current=makedumpfile
[   44.337663] hash-mmu:     trap=0x300 vsid=0x13a109c ssize=1 base psize=2 psize 2 pte=0xc000000050000504
[   44.337677] hash-mmu: mm: Hashing failure ! EA=0x7fffba400000 access=0x8000000000000004 current=makedumpfile
[   44.337692] hash-mmu:     trap=0x300 vsid=0x13a109c ssize=1 base psize=2 psize 2 pte=0xc000000050000504
[   44.337708] makedumpfile[469]: unhandled signal 7 at 00007fffba400000 nip 00007fffbbc4d7fc lr 000000011356ca3c code 2
[   44.338548] Core dump to |/bin/false pipe failed
/lib/kdump-lib-initramfs.sh: line 98:   469 Bus error               $CORE_COLLECTOR /proc/vmcore $_mp/$KDUMP_PATH/$HOST_IP-$DATEDIR/vmcore-incomplete
kdump: saving vmcore failed

* Root cause *
  After analyzing, it turns out that in the current implementation,
when hot-removing lmb, the KOBJ_REMOVE event ejects before the dt updating as
the code __remove_memory() comes before drmem_update_dt().

>From a viewpoint of listener and publisher, the publisher notifies the
listener before data is ready.  This introduces a problem where udev
launches kexec-tools (due to KOBJ_REMOVE) and loads a stale dt before
updating. And in capture kernel, makedumpfile will access the memory based
on the stale dt info, and hit a SIGBUS error due to an un-existed lmb.

* Fix *
  In order to fix this issue, update dt before __remove_memory(), and
accordingly the same rule in hot-add path.

This will introduce extra dt updating payload for each involved lmb when hotplug.
But it should be fine since drmem_update_dt() is memory based operation and
hotplug is not a hot path.

Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans at gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini at linux.ibm.com>
To: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: kexec at lists.infradead.org
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c | 15 +++++++++------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c
index a3a9353..1f623c3 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c
@@ -392,6 +392,9 @@ static int dlpar_remove_lmb(struct drmem_lmb *lmb)
 	invalidate_lmb_associativity_index(lmb);
 	lmb_clear_nid(lmb);
 	lmb->flags &= ~DRCONF_MEM_ASSIGNED;
+	rtas_hp_event = true;
+	drmem_update_dt();
+	rtas_hp_event = false;
 
 	__remove_memory(nid, base_addr, block_sz);
 
@@ -665,6 +668,9 @@ static int dlpar_add_lmb(struct drmem_lmb *lmb)
 
 	lmb_set_nid(lmb);
 	lmb->flags |= DRCONF_MEM_ASSIGNED;
+	rtas_hp_event = true;
+	drmem_update_dt();
+	rtas_hp_event = false;
 
 	block_sz = memory_block_size_bytes();
 
@@ -683,6 +689,9 @@ static int dlpar_add_lmb(struct drmem_lmb *lmb)
 		invalidate_lmb_associativity_index(lmb);
 		lmb_clear_nid(lmb);
 		lmb->flags &= ~DRCONF_MEM_ASSIGNED;
+		rtas_hp_event = true;
+		drmem_update_dt();
+		rtas_hp_event = false;
 
 		__remove_memory(nid, base_addr, block_sz);
 	}
@@ -939,12 +948,6 @@ int dlpar_memory(struct pseries_hp_errorlog *hp_elog)
 		break;
 	}
 
-	if (!rc) {
-		rtas_hp_event = true;
-		rc = drmem_update_dt();
-		rtas_hp_event = false;
-	}
-
 	unlock_device_hotplug();
 	return rc;
 }
-- 
2.7.5