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Heiko Carstens 55adc1d05d mm: add private lock to serialize memory hotplug operations 
Commit bfc8c90139 ("mem-hotplug: implement get/put_online_mems")
introduced new functions get/put_online_mems() and mem_hotplug_begin/end()
in order to allow similar semantics for memory hotplug like for cpu
hotplug.

The corresponding functions for cpu hotplug are get/put_online_cpus()
and cpu_hotplug_begin/done() for cpu hotplug.

The commit however missed to introduce functions that would serialize
memory hotplug operations like they are done for cpu hotplug with
cpu_maps_update_begin/done().

This basically leaves mem_hotplug.active_writer unprotected and allows
concurrent writers to modify it, which may lead to problems as outlined
by commit f931ab479d ("mm: fix devm_memremap_pages crash, use
mem_hotplug_{begin, done}").

That commit was extended again with commit b5d24fda9c ("mm,
devm_memremap_pages: hold device_hotplug lock over mem_hotplug_{begin,
done}") which serializes memory hotplug operations for some call sites
by using the device_hotplug lock.

In addition with commit 3fc2192410 ("mm: validate device_hotplug is held
for memory hotplug") a sanity check was added to mem_hotplug_begin() to
verify that the device_hotplug lock is held.

This in turn triggers the following warning on s390:

WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 1 at drivers/base/core.c:643 assert_held_device_hotplug+0x4a/0x58
 Call Trace:
  assert_held_device_hotplug+0x40/0x58)
  mem_hotplug_begin+0x34/0xc8
  add_memory_resource+0x7e/0x1f8
  add_memory+0xda/0x130
  add_memory_merged+0x15c/0x178
  sclp_detect_standby_memory+0x2ae/0x2f8
  do_one_initcall+0xa2/0x150
  kernel_init_freeable+0x228/0x2d8
  kernel_init+0x2a/0x140
  kernel_thread_starter+0x6/0xc

One possible fix would be to add more lock_device_hotplug() and
unlock_device_hotplug() calls around each call site of
mem_hotplug_begin/end().  But that would give the device_hotplug lock
additional semantics it better should not have (serialize memory hotplug
operations).

Instead add a new memory_add_remove_lock which has the similar semantics
like cpu_add_remove_lock for cpu hotplug.

To keep things hopefully a bit easier the lock will be locked and unlocked
within the mem_hotplug_begin/end() functions.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170314125226.16779-2-heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-03-16 16:56:18 -07:00
arch mm, x86: fix native_pud_clear build error 2017-03-16 16:56:18 -07:00
block blk-mq-sched: don't run the queue async from blk_mq_try_issue_directly() 2017-03-14 11:51:59 -06:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto net: Work around lockdep limitation in sockets that use sockets 2017-03-09 18:23:27 -08:00
Documentation Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-03-14 21:31:23 -07:00
drivers Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-03-15 16:54:58 -07:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
fs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-03-15 16:54:58 -07:00
include kasan: add a prototype of task_struct to avoid warning 2017-03-16 16:56:18 -07:00
init Change get_random_{int,log} to use the CRNG used by /dev/urandom and 2017-03-11 09:08:47 -08:00
ipc Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
kernel mm: add private lock to serialize memory hotplug operations 2017-03-16 16:56:18 -07:00
lib mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
mm mm: add private lock to serialize memory hotplug operations 2017-03-16 16:56:18 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-03-14 21:31:23 -07:00
samples Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
scripts Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-03-10 08:34:42 -08:00
security Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
sound scripts/spelling.txt: add "disble(d)" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-03-09 17:01:09 -08:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-03-14 21:31:23 -07:00
usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: VGIC: Fix command handling while ITS being disabled 2017-03-07 15:44:08 +00:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-08-02 16:48:52 -04:00
.mailmap mailmap: add codeaurora.org names for nameless email commits 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
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Kbuild scripts/gdb: provide linux constants 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
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MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: usb251xb: remove reference inexistent file 2017-03-09 10:34:16 +01:00
Makefile Linux 4.11-rc2 2017-03-12 14:47:08 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.