RE: [PATCH RESEND 0/3] memory_hotplug: hyperv: fix deadlock between memory adding and onlining

[KY Srinivasan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki [mailto:rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 2:13 PM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Greg Kroah-Hartman;
> Haiyang Zhang; Andrew Morton; Yasuaki Ishimatsu; Tang Chen; Vlastimil
> Babka; David Rientjes; Fabian Frederick; Zhang Zhen; Vladimir Davydov;
> Wang Nan; devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 0/3] memory_hotplug: hyperv: fix deadlock
> between memory adding and onlining
> 
> On Thursday, February 12, 2015 03:38:42 PM KY Srinivasan wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Vitaly Kuznetsov [mailto:vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 2:24 AM
> > > To: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman; KY Srinivasan; Haiyang Zhang; Andrew Morton;
> > > Yasuaki Ishimatsu; Tang Chen; Vlastimil Babka; David Rientjes;
> > > Fabian Frederick; Zhang Zhen; Vladimir Davydov; Wang Nan; Rafael J.
> > > Wysocki; devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [PATCH RESEND 0/3] memory_hotplug: hyperv: fix deadlock
> > > between memory adding and onlining
> > >
> > > RESEND (with no changes) because Rafael J. Wysocki was missing in
> > > recepients.
> > >
> > > If newly added memory is brought online with e.g. udev rule:
> > > SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ACTION=="add", ATTR{state}="online"
> > > the following deadlock is observed (and easily reproducable):
> > >
> > > First participant, worker thread doing add_memory():
> > >
> > > [  724.948846] kworker/0:1     D ffff88000412f9c8 13248    27      2
> 0x00000000
> > > [  724.973543] Workqueue: events hot_add_req [hv_balloon] [
> > > 724.991736]
> > > ffff88000412f9c8 0000000000000000 ffff88003fa1dc30 00000000000151c0
> > > [ 725.019725]  0000000000000246 ffff88000412ffd8 00000000000151c0
> > > ffff88003a77a4e0 [  725.046486]  ffff88003fa1dc30 00000001032a6000
> > > ffff88003a7ca838 ffff88003a7ca898 [  725.072969] Call Trace:
> > > [  725.082690]  [<ffffffff81aac0a9>]
> > > schedule_preempt_disabled+0x29/0x70
> > > [  725.103799]  [<ffffffff81aae33b>] mutex_lock_nested+0x14b/0x470 [
> > > 725.122367]  [<ffffffff815ed773>] ? device_attach+0x23/0xb0 [
> > > 725.140992] [<ffffffff815ed773>] device_attach+0x23/0xb0 [
> > > 725.159131] [<ffffffff815ecba0>] bus_probe_device+0xb0/0xe0 [
> > > 725.177055] [<ffffffff815ea693>] device_add+0x443/0x650 [
> > > 725.195558] [<ffffffff815ea8be>] device_register+0x1e/0x30 [
> > > 725.213133] [<ffffffff81601790>] init_memory_block+0xd0/0xf0 [
> > > 725.231533] [<ffffffff816018f1>] register_new_memory+0xb1/0xd0 [
> > > 725.250769] [<ffffffff81a961cf>] __add_pages+0x13f/0x250 [
> > > 725.269642] [<ffffffff81063770>] ? arch_add_memory+0x70/0xf0 [
> > > 725.288764] [<ffffffff81063770>] arch_add_memory+0x70/0xf0 [
> > > 725.306117] [<ffffffff81a95f8f>] add_memory+0xef/0x1f0 [
> > > 725.322466] [<ffffffffa00293af>] hot_add_req+0x33f/0xf90
> > > [hv_balloon] [  725.342777] [<ffffffff8109509f>]
> > > process_one_work+0x1df/0x4e0 [  725.361459] [<ffffffff8109502d>] ?
> > > process_one_work+0x16d/0x4e0 [  725.380390] [<ffffffff810954bb>]
> > > worker_thread+0x11b/0x450 [  725.397684] [<ffffffff810953a0>] ?
> > > process_one_work+0x4e0/0x4e0 [  725.416533] [<ffffffff8109ac33>]
> > > kthread+0xf3/0x110 [  725.433372]  [<ffffffff8109ab40>] ?
> > > kthread_create_on_node+0x240/0x240
> > > [  725.453749]  [<ffffffff81ab1dfc>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 [
> > > 725.470994] [<ffffffff8109ab40>] ?
> > > kthread_create_on_node+0x240/0x240
> > > [  725.491469] 6 locks held by kworker/0:1/27:
> > > [  725.505037]  #0:  ("events"){......}, at: [<ffffffff8109502d>]
> > > process_one_work+0x16d/0x4e0 [  725.533370]  #1:
> > > ((&dm_device.ha_wrk.wrk)){......}, at: [<ffffffff8109502d>]
> > > process_one_work+0x16d/0x4e0 [  725.565580]  #2:
> > > (mem_hotplug.lock){......}, at: [<ffffffff811e6525>]
> > > mem_hotplug_begin+0x5/0x80 [  725.594369]  #3:
> > > (mem_hotplug.lock#2){......}, at: [<ffffffff811e656f>]
> > > mem_hotplug_begin+0x4f/0x80 [  725.628554]  #4:
> > > (mem_sysfs_mutex){......}, at: [<ffffffff81601873>]
> > > register_new_memory+0x33/0xd0 [  725.658519]  #5:
> > > (&dev->mutex){......},
> > > at: [<ffffffff815ed773>] device_attach+0x23/0xb0
> > >
> > > Second participant, udev:
> > >
> > > [  725.750889] systemd-udevd   D ffff88003b94fc68 14016   888    530
> > > 0x00000004
> > > [  725.773767]  ffff88003b94fc68 0000000000000000 ffff8800034949c0
> > > 00000000000151c0 [  725.798332]  ffffffff8210d980 ffff88003b94ffd8
> > > 00000000000151c0 ffff880037a69270 [  725.822841]  ffff8800034949c0
> > > 0000000100000001 ffff8800034949c0 ffffffff81ff2b48 [  725.849184] Call
> Trace:
> > > [  725.858987]  [<ffffffff81aac0a9>]
> > > schedule_preempt_disabled+0x29/0x70
> > > [  725.879231]  [<ffffffff81aae33b>] mutex_lock_nested+0x14b/0x470 [
> > > 725.897860]  [<ffffffff811e656f>] ? mem_hotplug_begin+0x4f/0x80 [
> > > 725.916698]  [<ffffffff811e656f>] mem_hotplug_begin+0x4f/0x80 [
> > > 725.935064]  [<ffffffff811e6525>] ? mem_hotplug_begin+0x5/0x80 [
> > > 725.953464]  [<ffffffff81a9631b>] online_pages+0x3b/0x520 [
> > > 725.971542] [<ffffffff815eb0b3>] ? device_online+0x23/0xa0 [
> > > 725.989207] [<ffffffff81601524>] memory_subsys_online+0x64/0xc0 [
> > > 726.008513] [<ffffffff815eb0fd>] device_online+0x6d/0xa0 [
> > > 726.025579] [<ffffffff816012eb>] store_mem_state+0x5b/0xe0 [
> > > 726.043400] [<ffffffff815e8258>] dev_attr_store+0x18/0x30 [
> > > 726.060506] [<ffffffff8127a808>] sysfs_kf_write+0x48/0x60 [
> > > 726.077940] [<ffffffff81279d1b>] kernfs_fop_write+0x13b/0x1a0 [
> > > 726.099416] [<ffffffff811f9f67>] vfs_write+0xb7/0x1f0 [  726.115748]
> > > [<ffffffff811fabf8>]
> > > SyS_write+0x58/0xd0 [  726.131933]  [<ffffffff81ab1ea9>]
> > > system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x17 [  726.150691] 7 locks held by
> > > systemd-
> > > udevd/888:
> > > [  726.165044]  #0:  (sb_writers#3){......}, at:
> > > [<ffffffff811fa063>]
> > > vfs_write+0x1b3/0x1f0 [  726.192422]  #1:  (&of->mutex){......}, at:
> > > [<ffffffff81279c46>] kernfs_fop_write+0x66/0x1a0 [  726.220289]  #2:
> > > (s_active#60){......}, at: [<ffffffff81279c4e>]
> > > kernfs_fop_write+0x6e/0x1a0 [ 726.249382]  #3:
> > > (device_hotplug_lock){......}, at: [<ffffffff815e9c15>]
> > > lock_device_hotplug_sysfs+0x15/0x50
> > > [  726.281901]  #4:  (&dev->mutex){......}, at: [<ffffffff815eb0b3>]
> > > device_online+0x23/0xa0 [  726.308619]  #5:  (mem_hotplug.lock){......},
> at:
> > > [<ffffffff811e6525>] mem_hotplug_begin+0x5/0x80 [  726.337994]  #6:
> > > (mem_hotplug.lock#2){......}, at: [<ffffffff811e656f>]
> > > mem_hotplug_begin+0x4f/0x80
> > >
> > > In short: onlining grabs device lock and then tries to do
> > > mem_hotplug_begin() while add_memory() is between
> > > mem_hotplug_begin() and mem_hotplug_done() and it tries grabbing
> > > device lock.
> > >
> > > To my understanding ACPI memory hotplug doesn't have the same issue
> > > as device_hotplug_lock is being grabbed when the ACPI device is added.
> > >
> > > Solve the issue by grabbing device_hotplug_lock before doing
> > > add_memory(). If we do that, lock_device_hotplug_sysfs() will cause
> > > syscall retry which will eventually succeed. To support the change
> > > we need to export lock_device_hotplug/ unlock_device_hotplug. This
> > > approach can be completely wrong though.
> >
> > This issue was first discovered by Andy Whitcroft:
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/14/451
> > I had sent patches based on Andy's analysis that did not affect the
> > users of the kernel hot-add memory APIs:
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/2/662
> >
> > This patch puts the burden where it needs to be and can address the issue
> for all clients.
> 
> That seems to mean that this series is not needed.  Is that correct?

This patch was never committed upstream and so the issue still is there.

K. Y
> 
> Rafael