e610a466d1
It's common for the platform to replace the cache device nodes after a
migration. Since the cacheinfo code is never informed about this, it
never drops its references to the source system's cache nodes, causing
it to wind up in an inconsistent state resulting in warnings and oopses
as soon as CPU online/offline occurs after the migration, e.g.
cache for /cpus/l3-cache@3113(Unified) refers to cache for /cpus/l2-cache@200d(Unified)
WARNING: CPU: 15 PID: 86 at arch/powerpc/kernel/cacheinfo.c:176 release_cache+0x1bc/0x1d0
[...]
NIP release_cache+0x1bc/0x1d0
LR release_cache+0x1b8/0x1d0
Call Trace:
release_cache+0x1b8/0x1d0 (unreliable)
cacheinfo_cpu_offline+0x1c4/0x2c0
unregister_cpu_online+0x1b8/0x260
cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x114/0xf40
cpuhp_thread_fun+0x270/0x310
smpboot_thread_fn+0x2c8/0x390
kthread+0x1b8/0x1c0
ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x68
Using device tree notifiers won't work since we want to rebuild the
hierarchy only after all the removals and additions have occurred and
the device tree is in a consistent state. Call cacheinfo_teardown()
before processing device tree updates, and rebuild the hierarchy
afterward.
Fixes: 410bccf97881 ("powerpc/pseries: Partition migration in the kernel")
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
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.