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    PCI: vmd: Create domain symlink before pci_bus_add_devices() · f24c9bfc
    Jiwei Sun authored
    The vmd driver creates a "domain" symlink in sysfs for each VMD bridge.
    Previously this symlink was created after pci_bus_add_devices() added
    devices below the VMD bridge and emitted udev events to announce them to
    userspace.
    
    This led to a race between userspace consumers of the udev events and the
    kernel creation of the symlink.  One such consumer is mdadm, which
    assembles block devices into a RAID array, and for devices below a VMD
    bridge, mdadm depends on the "domain" symlink.
    
    If mdadm loses the race, it may be unable to assemble a RAID array, which
    may cause a boot failure or other issues, with complaints like this:
    
      (udev-worker)[2149]: nvme1n1: '/sbin/mdadm -I /dev/nvme1n1'(err) 'mdadm: Unable to get real path for '/sys/bus/pci/drivers/vmd/0000:c7:00.5/domain/device''
      (udev-worker)[2149]: nvme1n1: '/sbin/mdadm -I /dev/nvme1n1'(err) 'mdadm: /dev/nvme1n1 is not attached to Intel(R) RAID controller.'
      (udev-worker)[2149]: nvme1n1: '/sbin/mdadm -I /dev/nvme1n1'(err) 'mdadm: No OROM/EFI properties for /dev/nvme1n1'
      (udev-worker)[2149]: nvme1n1: '/sbin/mdadm -I /dev/nvme1n1'(err) 'mdadm: no RAID superblock on /dev/nvme1n1.'
      (udev-worker)[2149]: nvme1n1: Process '/sbin/mdadm -I /dev/nvme1n1' failed with exit code 1.
    
    This symptom prevents the OS from booting successfully.
    
    After a NVMe disk is probed/added by the nvme driver, udevd invokes mdadm
    to detect if there is a mdraid associated with this NVMe disk, and mdadm
    determines if a NVMe device is connected to a particular VMD domain by
    checking the "domain" symlink. For example:
    
      Thread A                   Thread B             Thread mdadm
      vmd_enable_domain
        pci_bus_add_devices
          __driver_probe_device
           ...
           work_on_cpu
             schedule_work_on
             : wakeup Thread B
                                 nvme_probe
                                 : wakeup scan_work
                                   to scan nvme disk
                                   and add nvme disk
                                   then wakeup udevd
                                                      : udevd executes
                                                        mdadm command
             flush_work                               main
             : wait for nvme_probe done                ...
          __driver_probe_device                        find_driver_devices
          : probe next nvme device                     : 1) Detect domain symlink
          ...                                            2) Find domain symlink
          ...                                               from vmd sysfs
          ...                                            3) Domain symlink not
          ...                                               created yet; failed
        sysfs_create_link
        : create domain symlink
    
    Create the VMD "domain" symlink before invoking pci_bus_add_devices() to
    avoid this race.
    Suggested-by: default avatarAdrian Huang <ahuang12@lenovo.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20240605124844.24293-1-sjiwei@163.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJiwei Sun <sunjw10@lenovo.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKrzysztof Wilczyński <kwilczynski@kernel.org>
    [bhelgaas: commit log]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarNirmal Patel <nirmal.patel@linux.intel.com>
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