[PATCH] mm/memory hotplog: postpone the reset of obsolete pgdat

From: Gu Zheng
Date: Wed Mar 11 2015 - 23:53:54 EST


Qiu Xishi reported the following BUG when testing hot-add/hot-remove node under
stress condition.
[ 1422.011064] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000025f60
[ 1422.011086] IP: [<ffffffff81126b91>] next_online_pgdat+0x1/0x50
[ 1422.011178] PGD 0
[ 1422.011180] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
[ 1422.011409] ACPI: Device does not support D3cold
[ 1422.011961] Modules linked in: fuse nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat loop dm_mod coretemp mperf crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel ablk_helper cryptd lrw gf128mul glue_helper aes_x86_64 pcspkr microcode igb dca i2c_algo_bit ipv6 megaraid_sas iTCO_wdt i2c_i801 i2c_core iTCO_vendor_support tg3 sg hwmon ptp lpc_ich pps_core mfd_core acpi_pad rtc_cmos button ext3 jbd mbcache sd_mod crc_t10dif scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_hp_sw scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh ahci libahci libata scsi_mod [last unloaded: rasf]
[ 1422.012006] CPU: 23 PID: 238 Comm: kworker/23:1 Tainted: G O 3.10.15-5885-euler0302 #1
[ 1422.012024] Hardware name: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD. Huawei N1/Huawei N1, BIOS V100R001 03/02/2015
[ 1422.012065] Workqueue: events vmstat_update
[ 1422.012084] task: ffffa800d32c0000 ti: ffffa800d32ae000 task.ti: ffffa800d32ae000
[ 1422.012165] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81126b91>] [<ffffffff81126b91>] next_online_pgdat+0x1/0x50
[ 1422.012205] RSP: 0018:ffffa800d32afce8 EFLAGS: 00010286
[ 1422.012225] RAX: 0000000000001440 RBX: ffffffff81da53b8 RCX: 0000000000000082
[ 1422.012226] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000082 RDI: 0000000000000000
[ 1422.012254] RBP: ffffa800d32afd28 R08: ffffffff81c93bfc R09: ffffffff81cbdc96
[ 1422.012272] R10: 00000000000040ec R11: 00000000000000a0 R12: ffffa800fffb3440
[ 1422.012290] R13: ffffa800d32afd38 R14: 0000000000000017 R15: ffffa800e6616800
[ 1422.012292] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa800e6600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 1422.012314] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 1422.012328] CR2: 0000000000025f60 CR3: 0000000001a0b000 CR4: 00000000001407e0
[ 1422.012328] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 1422.012328] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 1422.012328] Stack:
[ 1422.012328] ffffa800d32afd28 ffffffff81126ca5 ffffa800ffffffff ffffffff814b4314
[ 1422.012328] ffffa800d32ae010 0000000000000000 ffffa800e6616180 ffffa800fffb3440
[ 1422.012328] ffffa800d32afde8 ffffffff81128220 ffffffff00000013 0000000000000038
[ 1422.012328] Call Trace:
[ 1422.012328] [<ffffffff81126ca5>] ? next_zone+0xc5/0x150
[ 1422.012328] [<ffffffff814b4314>] ? __schedule+0x544/0x780
[ 1422.012328] [<ffffffff81128220>] refresh_cpu_vm_stats+0xd0/0x140
[ 1422.012328] [<ffffffff811282a1>] vmstat_update+0x11/0x50
[ 1422.012328] [<ffffffff81064c24>] process_one_work+0x194/0x3d0
[ 1422.012328] [<ffffffff810660bb>] worker_thread+0x12b/0x410
[ 1422.012328] [<ffffffff81065f90>] ? manage_workers+0x1a0/0x1a0
[ 1422.012328] [<ffffffff8106ba66>] kthread+0xc6/0xd0
[ 1422.012328] [<ffffffff8106b9a0>] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x70/0x70
[ 1422.012328] [<ffffffff814be0ac>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[ 1422.012328] [<ffffffff8106b9a0>] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x70/0x70

The cause is the "memset(pgdat, 0, sizeof(*pgdat))" at the end of try_offline_node,
which will reset the all content of pgdat to 0, as the pgdat is accessed lock-lee,
so that the users still using the pgdat will panic, such as the vmstat_update routine.

So the solution here is postponing the reset of obsolete pgdat from try_offline_node()
to hotadd_new_pgdat(), and just resetting pgdat->nr_zones and pgdat->classzone_idx to
be 0 rather than the memset 0 to avoid breaking pointer information in pgdat.

Reported-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory_hotplug.c | 13 ++++---------
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 9fab107..65842d6 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -1092,6 +1092,10 @@ static pg_data_t __ref *hotadd_new_pgdat(int nid, u64 start)
return NULL;

arch_refresh_nodedata(nid, pgdat);
+ } else {
+ /* Reset the nr_zones and classzone_idx to 0 before reuse */
+ pgdat->nr_zones = 0;
+ pgdat->classzone_idx = 0;
}

/* we can use NODE_DATA(nid) from here */
@@ -1977,15 +1981,6 @@ void try_offline_node(int nid)
if (is_vmalloc_addr(zone->wait_table))
vfree(zone->wait_table);
}
-
- /*
- * Since there is no way to guarentee the address of pgdat/zone is not
- * on stack of any kernel threads or used by other kernel objects
- * without reference counting or other symchronizing method, do not
- * reset node_data and free pgdat here. Just reset it to 0 and reuse
- * the memory when the node is online again.
- */
- memset(pgdat, 0, sizeof(*pgdat));
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(try_offline_node);

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1.7.7

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