Re: [RFC PATCH] memory-hotplug: Add memblock_state notifier

[Wen Congyang]

At 07/20/2012 07:18 PM, Vasilis Liaskovitis Wrote:
> hot-remove initiated by acpi_memhotplug driver tries to offline pages and then
> remove section/sysfs files in remove_memory(). remove_memory() will only proceed
> if is_memblk_offline() returns true, i.e. only if the corresponding memblock
> is in MEM_OFFLINE state. However, the memblock state is currently only updated
> if the offlining has been initiated from the sysfs interface (echo offline >
> /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXX/state). The acpi hot-remove codepath does
> not use the sysfs interface but directly calls offline_pages. So remove_memory()
> will always fail, even if offline_pages has succeeded.

Thank you for pointing this problem.

> 
> This patch solves this by registering a memblock_state notifier function in the
> memory_notify chain. This will change state of memblocks independently of sysfs
> usage.

I think this patch does not solve this problem.

> 
> The patch is based on work-in-progress patches for memory hot-remove, see:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/507244/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vasilis Liaskovitis <vasilis.liaskovitis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/base/memory.c |   37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/base/memory.c b/drivers/base/memory.c
> index 8981568..4095f3f 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/memory.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/memory.c
> @@ -706,6 +706,42 @@ int unregister_memory_section(struct mem_section *section)
>  	return remove_memory_block(0, section, 0);
>  }
>  
> +static int memblock_state_notifier_nb(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long
> +		val, void *v)
> +{
> +	struct memory_notify *arg = (struct memory_notify *)v;
> +	struct memory_block *mem = NULL;
> +	struct mem_section *ms;
> +	unsigned long section_nr;
> +
> +	section_nr = pfn_to_section_nr(arg->start_pfn);
> +	ms = __nr_to_section(section_nr);
> +	mem = find_memory_block(ms);
> +	if (!mem)
> +		goto out;

we may offline more than one memory block.

> +
> +	switch (val) {
> +	case MEM_GOING_OFFLINE:
> +	case MEM_OFFLINE:
> +	case MEM_GOING_ONLINE:
> +	case MEM_ONLINE:
> +	case MEM_CANCEL_ONLINE:
> +	case MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE:
> +		mem->state = val;

mem->state is protected by the lock mem->state_mutex, so if you want to
update the state, you must lock mem->state_mutex. But you cannot lock it
here, because it may cause deadlock:

acpi_memhotplug                           sysfs interface
===============================================================================
                                          memory_block_change_state()
                                              lock mem->state_mutex
                                              memory_block_action()
offline_pages()
    lock_memory_hotplug()
                                                  offline_memory()
                                                      lock_memory_hotplug() // block
    memory_notify()
        memblock_state_notifier_nb()
===============================================================================

I'm writing another patch to fix it.

Thanks
Wen Congyang

> +		break;
> +	default:
> +		printk(KERN_WARNING "invalid memblock state\n");
> +		break;
> +	}
> +out:
> +	return NOTIFY_OK;
> +}
> +
> +static struct notifier_block memblock_state_nb = {
> +	.notifier_call = memblock_state_notifier_nb,
> +	.priority = 0
> +};
> +
>  /*
>   * Initialize the sysfs support for memory devices...
>   */
> @@ -724,6 +760,7 @@ int __init memory_dev_init(void)
>  	block_sz = get_memory_block_size();
>  	sections_per_block = block_sz / MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE;
>  
> +	register_memory_notifier(&memblock_state_nb);
>  	/*
>  	 * Create entries for memory sections that were found
>  	 * during boot and have been initialized

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