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: 9d5171a8 ("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>
Showing
Please register or sign in to comment