In some cases initial bind of scm memory for an lpar can fail if
previously it wasn't released using a scm-unbind hcall. This situation
can arise due to panic of the previous kernel or forced lpar
fadump. In such cases the H_SCM_BIND_MEM return a H_OVERLAP error.
To mitigate such cases the patch updates papr_scm_probe() to force a
call to drc_pmem_unbind() in case the initial bind of scm memory fails
with EBUSY error. In case scm-bind operation again fails after the
forced scm-unbind then we follow the existing error path. We also
update drc_pmem_bind() to handle the H_OVERLAP error returned by phyp
and indicate it as a EBUSY error back to the caller.
Suggested-by: "Oliver O'Halloran" <ooh...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaib...@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Oliver O'Halloran <ooh...@gmail.com>
---
Change-log:
v3:
* Minor update to a code comment. [Oliver]
v2:
* Moved the retry code from drc_pmem_bind() to papr_scm_probe()
[Oliver]
* Changed the type of variable 'rc' in drc_pmem_bind() to
int64_t. [Oliver]
---
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c
b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c
index c01a03fd3ee7..7c5e10c063a0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c
@@ -43,8 +43,9 @@ struct papr_scm_priv {
static int drc_pmem_bind(struct papr_scm_priv *p)
{
unsigned long ret[PLPAR_HCALL_BUFSIZE];
- uint64_t rc, token;
uint64_t saved = 0;
+ uint64_t token;
+ int64_t rc;
/*
* When the hypervisor cannot map all the requested memory in a single
@@ -64,6 +65,10 @@ static int drc_pmem_bind(struct papr_scm_priv *p)
} while (rc == H_BUSY);
if (rc) {
+ /* H_OVERLAP needs a separate error path */
+ if (rc == H_OVERLAP)
+ return -EBUSY;
+
dev_err(&p->pdev->dev, "bind err: %lld\n", rc);
return -ENXIO;
}
@@ -331,6 +336,14 @@ static int papr_scm_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
/* request the hypervisor to bind this region to somewhere in memory */
rc = drc_pmem_bind(p);
+
+ /* If phyp says drc memory still bound then force unbound and retry */
+ if (rc == -EBUSY) {
+ dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "Retrying bind after unbinding\n");
+ drc_pmem_unbind(p);
+ rc = drc_pmem_bind(p);
+ }
+
if (rc)
goto err;
--
2.21.0
