8df1d0e4a2
add_memory() currently does not take the device_hotplug_lock, however
is aleady called under the lock from
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c
drivers/acpi/acpi_memhotplug.c
to synchronize against CPU hot-remove and similar.
In general, we should hold the device_hotplug_lock when adding memory to
synchronize against online/offline request (e.g. from user space) - which
already resulted in lock inversions due to device_lock() and
mem_hotplug_lock - see 30467e0b3b ("mm, hotplug: fix concurrent memory
hot-add deadlock"). add_memory()/add_memory_resource() will create memory
block devices, so this really feels like the right thing to do.
Holding the device_hotplug_lock makes sure that a memory block device
can really only be accessed (e.g. via .online/.state) from user space,
once the memory has been fully added to the system.
The lock is not held yet in
drivers/xen/balloon.c
arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/memtrace.c
drivers/s390/char/sclp_cmd.c
drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
So, let's either use the locked variants or take the lock.
Don't export add_memory_resource(), as it once was exported to be used by
XEN, which is never built as a module. If somebody requires it, we also
have to export a locked variant (as device_hotplug_lock is never
exported).
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180925091457.28651-3-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pavel.tatashin@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Rashmica Gupta <rashmica.g@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: John Allen <jallen@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pavel.tatashin@microsoft.com>
Cc: YASUAKI ISHIMATSU <yasu.isimatu@gmail.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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