[PATCH 0/3] memory_hotplug: hyperv: fix deadlock between memory adding and onlining

Vitaly Kuznetsov
2015-02-11T15:44:46Z

If newly added memory is brought online with e.g. udev rule:
SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ACTION=="add", ATTR{state}="online"
the following deadlock is observed (and easily reproducable):

First participant, worker thread doing add_memory():

[ 724.948846] kworker/0:1 D ffff88000412f9c8 13248 27 2 0x00000000
[ 724.973543] Workqueue: events hot_add_req [hv_balloon]
[ 724.991736] ffff88000412f9c8 0000000000000000 ffff88003fa1dc30 00000000000151c0
[ 725.019725] 0000000000000246 ffff88000412ffd8 00000000000151c0 ffff88003a77a4e0
[ 725.046486] ffff88003fa1dc30 00000001032a6000 ffff88003a7ca838 ffff88003a7ca898
[ 725.072969] Call Trace:
[ 725.082690] [<ffffffff81aac0a9>] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x29/0x70
[ 725.103799] [<ffffffff81aae33b>] mutex_lock_nested+0x14b/0x470
[ 725.122367] [<ffffffff815ed773>] ? device_attach+0x23/0xb0
[ 725.140992] [<ffffffff815ed773>] device_attach+0x23/0xb0
[ 725.159131] [<ffffffff815ecba0>] bus_probe_device+0xb0/0xe0
[ 725.177055] [<ffffffff815ea693>] device_add+0x443/0x650
[ 725.195558] [<ffffffff815ea8be>] device_register+0x1e/0x30
[ 725.213133] [<ffffffff81601790>] init_memory_block+0xd0/0xf0
[ 725.231533] [<ffffffff816018f1>] register_new_memory+0xb1/0xd0
[ 725.250769] [<ffffffff81a961cf>] __add_pages+0x13f/0x250
[ 725.269642] [<ffffffff81063770>] ? arch_add_memory+0x70/0xf0
[ 725.288764] [<ffffffff81063770>] arch_add_memory+0x70/0xf0
[ 725.306117] [<ffffffff81a95f8f>] add_memory+0xef/0x1f0
[ 725.322466] [<ffffffffa00293af>] hot_add_req+0x33f/0xf90 [hv_balloon]
[ 725.342777] [<ffffffff8109509f>] process_one_work+0x1df/0x4e0
[ 725.361459] [<ffffffff8109502d>] ? process_one_work+0x16d/0x4e0
[ 725.380390] [<ffffffff810954bb>] worker_thread+0x11b/0x450
[ 725.397684] [<ffffffff810953a0>] ? process_one_work+0x4e0/0x4e0
[ 725.416533] [<ffffffff8109ac33>] kthread+0xf3/0x110
[ 725.433372] [<ffffffff8109ab40>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x240/0x240
[ 725.453749] [<ffffffff81ab1dfc>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[ 725.470994] [<ffffffff8109ab40>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x240/0x240
[ 725.491469] 6 locks held by kworker/0:1/27:
[ 725.505037] #0: ("events"){......}, at: [<ffffffff8109502d>] process_one_work+0x16d/0x4e0
[ 725.533370] #1: ((&dm_device.ha_wrk.wrk)){......}, at: [<ffffffff8109502d>] process_one_work+0x16d/0x4e0
[ 725.565580] #2: (mem_hotplug.lock){......}, at: [<ffffffff811e6525>] mem_hotplug_begin+0x5/0x80
[ 725.594369] #3: (mem_hotplug.lock#2){......}, at: [<ffffffff811e656f>] mem_hotplug_begin+0x4f/0x80
[ 725.628554] #4: (mem_sysfs_mutex){......}, at: [<ffffffff81601873>] register_new_memory+0x33/0xd0
[ 725.658519] #5: (&dev->mutex){......}, at: [<ffffffff815ed773>] device_attach+0x23/0xb0

Second participant, udev:

[ 725.750889] systemd-udevd D ffff88003b94fc68 14016 888 530 0x00000004
[ 725.773767] ffff88003b94fc68 0000000000000000 ffff8800034949c0 00000000000151c0
[ 725.798332] ffffffff8210d980 ffff88003b94ffd8 00000000000151c0 ffff880037a69270
[ 725.822841] ffff8800034949c0 0000000100000001 ffff8800034949c0 ffffffff81ff2b48
[ 725.849184] Call Trace:
[ 725.858987] [<ffffffff81aac0a9>] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x29/0x70
[ 725.879231] [<ffffffff81aae33b>] mutex_lock_nested+0x14b/0x470
[ 725.897860] [<ffffffff811e656f>] ? mem_hotplug_begin+0x4f/0x80
[ 725.916698] [<ffffffff811e656f>] mem_hotplug_begin+0x4f/0x80
[ 725.935064] [<ffffffff811e6525>] ? mem_hotplug_begin+0x5/0x80
[ 725.953464] [<ffffffff81a9631b>] online_pages+0x3b/0x520
[ 725.971542] [<ffffffff815eb0b3>] ? device_online+0x23/0xa0
[ 725.989207] [<ffffffff81601524>] memory_subsys_online+0x64/0xc0
[ 726.008513] [<ffffffff815eb0fd>] device_online+0x6d/0xa0
[ 726.025579] [<ffffffff816012eb>] store_mem_state+0x5b/0xe0
[ 726.043400] [<ffffffff815e8258>] dev_attr_store+0x18/0x30
[ 726.060506] [<ffffffff8127a808>] sysfs_kf_write+0x48/0x60
[ 726.077940] [<ffffffff81279d1b>] kernfs_fop_write+0x13b/0x1a0
[ 726.099416] [<ffffffff811f9f67>] vfs_write+0xb7/0x1f0
[ 726.115748] [<ffffffff811fabf8>] SyS_write+0x58/0xd0
[ 726.131933] [<ffffffff81ab1ea9>] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x17
[ 726.150691] 7 locks held by systemd-udevd/888:
[ 726.165044] #0: (sb_writers#3){......}, at: [<ffffffff811fa063>] vfs_write+0x1b3/0x1f0
[ 726.192422] #1: (&of->mutex){......}, at: [<ffffffff81279c46>] kernfs_fop_write+0x66/0x1a0
[ 726.220289] #2: (s_active#60){......}, at: [<ffffffff81279c4e>] kernfs_fop_write+0x6e/0x1a0
[ 726.249382] #3: (device_hotplug_lock){......}, at: [<ffffffff815e9c15>] lock_device_hotplug_sysfs+0x15/0x50
[ 726.281901] #4: (&dev->mutex){......}, at: [<ffffffff815eb0b3>] device_online+0x23/0xa0
[ 726.308619] #5: (mem_hotplug.lock){......}, at: [<ffffffff811e6525>] mem_hotplug_begin+0x5/0x80
[ 726.337994] #6: (mem_hotplug.lock#2){......}, at: [<ffffffff811e656f>] mem_hotplug_begin+0x4f/0x80

In short: onlining grabs device lock and then tries to do mem_hotplug_begin()
while add_memory() is between mem_hotplug_begin() and mem_hotplug_done() and it
tries grabbing device lock.

To my understanding ACPI memory hotplug doesn't have the same issue as
device_hotplug_lock is being grabbed when the ACPI device is added.

Solve the issue by grabbing device_hotplug_lock before doing add_memory(). If
we do that, lock_device_hotplug_sysfs() will cause syscall retry which will
eventually succeed. To support the change we need to export lock_device_hotplug/
unlock_device_hotplug. This approach can be completely wrong though.

Vitaly Kuznetsov (3):
driver core: export lock_device_hotplug/unlock_device_hotplug
memory_hotplug: add note about holding device_hotplug_lock and
add_memory()
Drivers: hv: balloon: fix deadlock between memory adding and onlining

drivers/base/core.c | 2 ++
drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c | 10 ++++++++++
mm/memory_hotplug.c | 6 +++++-
3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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