On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 00:25 +0900, Yasunori Goto wrote:
> Badari-san.
>
> > Index: linux-2.6.25-rc2/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.25-rc2.orig/mm/memory_hotplug.c 2008-02-27
> > 12:58:17.000000000 -0800
> > +++ linux-2.6.25-rc2/mm/memory_hotplug.c 2008-02-27 16:06:50.000000000
> > -0800
> > @@ -102,6 +102,21 @@ static int __add_section(struct zone *zo
> > return register_new_memory(__pfn_to_section(phys_start_pfn));
> > }
> >
> > +static int __remove_section(struct zone *zone, struct mem_section *ms)
> > +{
> > + int ret = -EINVAL;
> > +
> > + if (!valid_section(ms))
> > + return ret;
> > +
> > + ret = unregister_memory_section(ms);
> > + if (ret)
> > + return ret;
> > +
> > + sparse_remove_one_section(zone, ms);
> > + return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> > /*
> > * Reasonably generic function for adding memory. It is
> > * expected that archs that support memory hotplug will
> > @@ -135,6 +150,35 @@ int __add_pages(struct zone *zone, unsig
> > }
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__add_pages);
> >
> > +int __remove_pages(struct zone *zone, unsigned long phys_start_pfn,
> > + unsigned long nr_pages)
> > +{
> > + unsigned long i, ret = 0;
> > + int sections_to_remove;
> > + unsigned long flags;
> > + struct pglist_data *pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat;
> > +
> > + /*
> > + * We can only remove entire sections
> > + */
> > + BUG_ON(phys_start_pfn & ~PAGE_SECTION_MASK);
> > + BUG_ON(nr_pages % PAGES_PER_SECTION);
> > +
> > + release_mem_region(phys_start_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT, nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE);
> > +
> > + sections_to_remove = nr_pages / PAGES_PER_SECTION;
> > + for (i = 0; i < sections_to_remove; i++) {
> > + unsigned long pfn = phys_start_pfn + i*PAGES_PER_SECTION;
> > + pgdat_resize_lock(pgdat, &flags);
> > + ret = __remove_section(zone, __pfn_to_section(pfn));
> > + pgdat_resize_unlock(pgdat, &flags);
> > + if (ret)
> > + break;
> > + }
> > + return ret;
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__remove_pages);
>
> Here may be a bug.
> __remove_section() is called with pgdat_resize_lock() which is
> spin_lock_irqsave().
>
> __remove_section()
> |
> +--> unregister_memory_section()
> |
> +--> remove_memory_block()
> |
> +--> unregister_memory()
> |
> +--> sysdev_unregister()
>
> sysdev_unregister() calls mutex_lock().
> It might sleep with irq disable, right?
> I found BUG()'s messages by this.
Hmm. I think you are right. Let me take a look
and see if we can move sysdev_unregister() outside
the lock.
Thanks for finding it.
Thanks,
Badari
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