Gautham R. Shenoy dfd718a2ed powerpc/rtas: Fix a potential race between CPU-Offline & Migration
Live Partition Migrations require all the present CPUs to execute the
H_JOIN call, and hence rtas_ibm_suspend_me() onlines any offline CPUs
before initiating the migration for this purpose.

The commit 85a88cabad
("powerpc/pseries: Disable CPU hotplug across migrations")
disables any CPU-hotplug operations once all the offline CPUs are
brought online to prevent any further state change. Once the
CPU-Hotplug operation is disabled, the code assumes that all the CPUs
are online.

However, there is a minor window in rtas_ibm_suspend_me() between
onlining the offline CPUs and disabling CPU-Hotplug when a concurrent
CPU-offline operations initiated by the userspace can succeed thereby
nullifying the the aformentioned assumption. In this unlikely case
these offlined CPUs will not call H_JOIN, resulting in a system hang.

Fix this by verifying that all the present CPUs are actually online
after CPU-Hotplug has been disabled, failing which we restore the
state of the offline CPUs in rtas_ibm_suspend_me() and return an
-EBUSY.

Cc: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-10-13 22:21:25 +11:00
2018-10-03 16:12:47 +10:00
2018-10-09 16:51:05 +11:00
2018-09-09 17:26:43 -07:00

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