2.6.37-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
------------------ From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]> commit 925268a06dc2b1ff7bfcc37419a6827a0e739639 upstream. Now, memory_hotplug_(un)lock() is used for add/remove/offline pages for avoiding races with hibernation. But this should be held in online_pages(), too. It seems asymmetric. There are cases where one has to avoid a race with memory hotplug notifier and his own local code, and hotplug v.s. hotplug. This will add a generic solution for avoiding races. In other view, having lock here has no big impacts. online pages is tend to be done by udev script at el against each memory section one by one. Then, it's better to have lock here, too. Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- include/linux/memory_hotplug.h | 6 ++++++ mm/memory_hotplug.c | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+) --- a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h +++ b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h @@ -161,6 +161,12 @@ extern void register_page_bootmem_info_n extern void put_page_bootmem(struct page *page); #endif +/* + * Lock for memory hotplug guarantees 1) all callbacks for memory hotplug + * notifier will be called under this. 2) offline/online/add/remove memory + * will not run simultaneously. + */ + void lock_memory_hotplug(void); void unlock_memory_hotplug(void); --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c @@ -407,6 +407,7 @@ int online_pages(unsigned long pfn, unsi int ret; struct memory_notify arg; + lock_memory_hotplug(); arg.start_pfn = pfn; arg.nr_pages = nr_pages; arg.status_change_nid = -1; @@ -419,6 +420,7 @@ int online_pages(unsigned long pfn, unsi ret = notifier_to_errno(ret); if (ret) { memory_notify(MEM_CANCEL_ONLINE, &arg); + unlock_memory_hotplug(); return ret; } /* @@ -443,6 +445,7 @@ int online_pages(unsigned long pfn, unsi printk(KERN_DEBUG "online_pages %lx at %lx failed\n", nr_pages, pfn); memory_notify(MEM_CANCEL_ONLINE, &arg); + unlock_memory_hotplug(); return ret; } @@ -467,6 +470,7 @@ int online_pages(unsigned long pfn, unsi if (onlined_pages) memory_notify(MEM_ONLINE, &arg); + unlock_memory_hotplug(); return 0; } _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
