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powerpc/mm: Flush cache on memory hot(un)plug 

This patch adds support for flushing potentially dirty cache lines
when memory is hot-plugged/hot-un-plugged. The support is currently
limited to 64 bit systems.

The bug was exposed when mappings for a device were actually
hot-unplugged and plugged in back later. A similar issue was observed
during the development of memtrace, but memtrace does it's own
flushing of region via a custom routine.

These patches do a flush both on hotplug/unplug to clear any stale
data in the cache w.r.t mappings, there is a small race window where a
clean cache line may be created again just prior to tearing down the
mapping.

The patches were tested by disabling the flush routines in memtrace
and doing I/O on the trace file. The system immediately
checkstops (quite reliablly if prior to the hot-unplug of the memtrace
region, we memset the regions we are about to hot unplug). After these
patches no custom flushing is needed in the memtrace code.

Fixes: 9d5171a8f2 ("powerpc/powernv: Enable removal of memory for in memory tracing")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.14+
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Rashmica Gupta <rashmica.g@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Balbir Singh 2018-04-06 15:24:23 +10:00 committed by Michael Ellerman
parent 6d08b06e67
commit fb5924fddf
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arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
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@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ int __meminit arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size, struct vmem_altmap *
start, start + size, rc);
return -EFAULT;
}
flush_inval_dcache_range(start, start + size);
return __add_pages(nid, start_pfn, nr_pages, altmap, want_memblock);
}
@ -159,6 +160,7 @@ int __meminit arch_remove_memory(u64 start, u64 size, struct vmem_altmap *altmap
/* Remove htab bolted mappings for this section of memory */
start = (unsigned long)__va(start);
flush_inval_dcache_range(start, start + size);
ret = remove_section_mapping(start, start + size);
/* Ensure all vmalloc mappings are flushed in case they also