Crash: add lock to serialize crash hotplug handling
Eric reported that handling corresponding crash hotplug event can be
failed easily when many memory hotplug event are notified in a short
period. They failed because failing to take __kexec_lock.
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[ 78.724423] crash hp: kexec_trylock() failed, elfcorehdr may be inaccurate
[ 78.727207] crash hp: kexec_trylock() failed, elfcorehdr may be inaccurate
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The memory hotplug events are notified very quickly and very many, while
the handling of crash hotplug is much slower relatively. So the atomic
variable __kexec_lock and kexec_trylock() can't guarantee the
serialization of crash hotplug handling.
Here, add a new mutex lock __crash_hotplug_lock to serialize crash hotplug
handling specifically. This doesn't impact the usage of __kexec_lock.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230926120905.392903-1-bhe@redhat.com
Fixes: 247262756121 ("crash: add generic infrastructure for crash hotplug support")
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Eric DeVolder <eric.devolder@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric DeVolder <eric.devolder@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Cc: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/crash_core.c b/kernel/crash_core.c
index 03a7932..2f675ef 100644
--- a/kernel/crash_core.c
+++ b/kernel/crash_core.c
@@ -740,6 +740,17 @@ subsys_initcall(crash_notes_memory_init);
#define pr_fmt(fmt) "crash hp: " fmt
/*
+ * Different than kexec/kdump loading/unloading/jumping/shrinking which
+ * usually rarely happen, there will be many crash hotplug events notified
+ * during one short period, e.g one memory board is hot added and memory
+ * regions are online. So mutex lock __crash_hotplug_lock is used to
+ * serialize the crash hotplug handling specifically.
+ */
+DEFINE_MUTEX(__crash_hotplug_lock);
+#define crash_hotplug_lock() mutex_lock(&__crash_hotplug_lock)
+#define crash_hotplug_unlock() mutex_unlock(&__crash_hotplug_lock)
+
+/*
* This routine utilized when the crash_hotplug sysfs node is read.
* It reflects the kernel's ability/permission to update the crash
* elfcorehdr directly.
@@ -748,9 +759,11 @@ int crash_check_update_elfcorehdr(void)
{
int rc = 0;
+ crash_hotplug_lock();
/* Obtain lock while reading crash information */
if (!kexec_trylock()) {
pr_info("kexec_trylock() failed, elfcorehdr may be inaccurate\n");
+ crash_hotplug_unlock();
return 0;
}
if (kexec_crash_image) {
@@ -761,6 +774,7 @@ int crash_check_update_elfcorehdr(void)
}
/* Release lock now that update complete */
kexec_unlock();
+ crash_hotplug_unlock();
return rc;
}
@@ -783,9 +797,11 @@ static void crash_handle_hotplug_event(unsigned int hp_action, unsigned int cpu)
{
struct kimage *image;
+ crash_hotplug_lock();
/* Obtain lock while changing crash information */
if (!kexec_trylock()) {
pr_info("kexec_trylock() failed, elfcorehdr may be inaccurate\n");
+ crash_hotplug_unlock();
return;
}
@@ -852,6 +868,7 @@ static void crash_handle_hotplug_event(unsigned int hp_action, unsigned int cpu)
out:
/* Release lock now that update complete */
kexec_unlock();
+ crash_hotplug_unlock();
}
static int crash_memhp_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long val, void *v)
