Message-ID: <871tkyy35g.fsf@vitty.brq.redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 09 Mar 2015 09:40:43 +0100
From:	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
To:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>,
	Tang Chen <tangchen@...fujitsu.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Fabian Frederick <fabf@...net.be>,
	Zhang Zhen <zhenzhang.zhang@...wei.com>,
	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...allels.com>,
	Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	devel@...uxdriverproject.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 0/3] memory_hotplug: hyperv: fix deadlock between memory adding and onlining

Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz> writes:

> [Sorry for the late response]
>
> This is basically the same code posted by KY Srinivasan posted late last
> year (http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=141782228129426&w=2). I had
> objections to the implementation
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=141805109216700&w=2

Np, David's alternative fix is already in -mm:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/12/655

>
> On Thu 12-02-15 11:23:51, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
>> Vitaly Kuznetsov (3):
>>   driver core: export lock_device_hotplug/unlock_device_hotplug
>>   memory_hotplug: add note about holding device_hotplug_lock and
>>     add_memory()
>>   Drivers: hv: balloon: fix deadlock between memory adding and onlining
>> 
>>  drivers/base/core.c     |  2 ++
>>  drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c | 10 ++++++++++
>>  mm/memory_hotplug.c     |  6 +++++-
>>  3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> -- 
>> 1.9.3
>> 
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  Vitaly
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