From: Breno Leitao <leitao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ehea: Fix memory hotplug oops
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 09:46:51 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DCA853B.6060904@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110511121710.05ab8c2e@kryten>
On 05/10/2011 11:17 PM, Anton Blanchard wrote:
>
> The ehea driver oopses during memory hotplug if the ports are not
> up. A simple testcase:
>
> # ifconfig ethX down
> # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory32/state
>
> Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
> last sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/memory/memory32/state
> REGS: c000000709393110 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted
(2.6.39-rc2-01385-g7ef73bc-dirty)
> DAR: 0000000000000000, DSISR: 40000000
> ...
> NIP [c000000000067c98] .__wake_up_common+0x48/0xf0
> LR [c00000000006d034] .__wake_up+0x54/0x90
> Call Trace:
> [c00000000006d034] .__wake_up+0x54/0x90
> [d000000006bb6270] .ehea_rereg_mrs+0x140/0x730 [ehea]
> [d000000006bb69c4] .ehea_mem_notifier+0x164/0x170 [ehea]
> [c0000000006fc8a8] .notifier_call_chain+0x78/0xf0
> [c0000000000b3d70] .__blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x70/0xb0
> [c000000000458d78] .memory_notify+0x28/0x40
> [c0000000001871d8] .remove_memory+0x208/0x6d0
> [c000000000458264] .memory_section_action+0x94/0x140
> [c0000000004583ec] .memory_block_change_state+0xdc/0x1d0
> [c0000000004585cc] .store_mem_state+0xec/0x160
> [c00000000044768c] .sysdev_store+0x3c/0x50
> [c00000000020b48c] .sysfs_write_file+0xec/0x1f0
> [c00000000018f86c] .vfs_write+0xec/0x1e0
> [c00000000018fa88] .SyS_write+0x58/0xd0
>
> To fix this, initialise the waitqueues during port probe instead
> of port open.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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2011-05-11 2:17 [PATCH] ehea: Fix memory hotplug oops Anton Blanchard
2011-05-11 12:46 ` Breno Leitao [this message]
2011-05-12 4:38 ` David Miller
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