[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "mm/memory hotplug: postpone the reset of obsolete pgdat" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue May 5 20:33:09 UTC 2015


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    mm/memory hotplug: postpone the reset of obsolete pgdat

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt20.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 4d75177464b0a9e2062cc7b021165d826ffd6861 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst at cn.fujitsu.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 15:55:20 -0700
Subject: mm/memory hotplug: postpone the reset of obsolete pgdat

commit b0dc3a342af36f95a68fe229b8f0f73552c5ca08 upstream.

Qiu Xishi reported the following BUG when testing hot-add/hot-remove node under
stress condition:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000025f60
  IP: next_online_pgdat+0x1/0x50
  PGD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
  ACPI: Device does not support D3cold
  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]
  CPU: 23 PID: 238 Comm: kworker/23:1 Tainted: G           O 3.10.15-5885-euler0302 #1
  Hardware name: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD. Huawei N1/Huawei N1, BIOS V100R001 03/02/2015
  Workqueue: events vmstat_update
  task: ffffa800d32c0000 ti: ffffa800d32ae000 task.ti: ffffa800d32ae000
  RIP: 0010: next_online_pgdat+0x1/0x50
  RSP: 0018:ffffa800d32afce8  EFLAGS: 00010286
  RAX: 0000000000001440 RBX: ffffffff81da53b8 RCX: 0000000000000082
  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000082 RDI: 0000000000000000
  RBP: ffffa800d32afd28 R08: ffffffff81c93bfc R09: ffffffff81cbdc96
  R10: 00000000000040ec R11: 00000000000000a0 R12: ffffa800fffb3440
  R13: ffffa800d32afd38 R14: 0000000000000017 R15: ffffa800e6616800
  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa800e6600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 0000000000025f60 CR3: 0000000001a0b000 CR4: 00000000001407e0
  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
  Call Trace:
    refresh_cpu_vm_stats+0xd0/0x140
    vmstat_update+0x11/0x50
    process_one_work+0x194/0x3d0
    worker_thread+0x12b/0x410
    kthread+0xc6/0xd0
    ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0

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

process A:				offline node XX:

vmstat_updat()
   refresh_cpu_vm_stats()
     for_each_populated_zone()
       find online node XX
     cond_resched()
					offline cpu and memory, then try_offline_node()
					node_set_offline(nid), and memset(pgdat, 0, sizeof(*pgdat))
       zone = next_zone(zone)
         pg_data_t *pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat;  // here pgdat is NULL now
           next_online_pgdat(pgdat)
             next_online_node(pgdat->node_id);  // NULL pointer access

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.

Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst at cn.fujitsu.com>
Reported-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi at huawei.com>
Suggested-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu at jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes at google.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki at jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Taku Izumi <izumi.taku at jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen at cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi at huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 mm/memory_hotplug.c | 13 ++++---------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 489f235..38c966a 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -1017,6 +1017,10 @@ 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 */
@@ -1862,15 +1866,6 @@ 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);

--
1.9.1





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