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    mm/memory_hotplug: make remove_memory() take the device_hotplug_lock · d15e5926
    David Hildenbrand authored
    Patch series "mm: online/offline_pages called w.o. mem_hotplug_lock", v3.
    
    Reading through the code and studying how mem_hotplug_lock is to be used,
    I noticed that there are two places where we can end up calling
    device_online()/device_offline() - online_pages()/offline_pages() without
    the mem_hotplug_lock.  And there are other places where we call
    device_online()/device_offline() without the device_hotplug_lock.
    
    While e.g.
    	echo "online" > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory9/state
    is fine, e.g.
    	echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory9/online
    Will not take the mem_hotplug_lock. However the device_lock() and
    device_hotplug_lock.
    
    E.g.  via memory_probe_store(), we can end up calling
    add_memory()->online_pages() without the device_hotplug_lock.  So we can
    have concurrent callers in online_pages().  We e.g.  touch in
    online_pages() basically unprotected zone->present_pages then.
    
    Looks like there is a longer history to that (see Patch #2 for details),
    and fixing it to work the way it was intended is not really possible.  We
    would e.g.  have to take the mem_hotplug_lock in device/base/core.c, which
    sounds wrong.
    
    Summary: We had a lock inversion on mem_hotplug_lock and device_lock().
    More details can be found in patch 3 and patch 6.
    
    I propose the general rules (documentation added in patch 6):
    
    1. add_memory/add_memory_resource() must only be called with
       device_hotplug_lock.
    2. remove_memory() must only be called with device_hotplug_lock. This is
       already documented and holds for all callers.
    3. device_online()/device_offline() must only be called with
       device_hotplug_lock. This is already documented and true for now in core
       code. Other callers (related to memory hotplug) have to be fixed up.
    4. mem_hotplug_lock is taken inside of add_memory/remove_memory/
       online_pages/offline_pages.
    
    To me, this looks way cleaner than what we have right now (and easier to
    verify).  And looking at the documentation of remove_memory, using
    lock_device_hotplug also for add_memory() feels natural.
    
    This patch (of 6):
    
    remove_memory() is exported right now but requires the
    device_hotplug_lock, which is not exported.  So let's provide a variant
    that takes the lock and only export that one.
    
    The lock is already held in
    	arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c
    	drivers/acpi/acpi_memhotplug.c
    	arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/memtrace.c
    
    Apart from that, there are not other users in the tree.
    
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180925091457.28651-2-david@redhat.comSigned-off-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarPavel Tatashin <pavel.tatashin@microsoft.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarRashmica Gupta <rashmica.g@gmail.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarOscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
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    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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