mm/hotplug: remove stop_machine() from try_offline_node()
lock_device_hotplug() serializes hotplug & online/offline operations. The
lock is held in common sysfs online/offline interfaces and ACPI hotplug
code paths.
And here are the code paths:
- CPU & Mem online/offline via sysfs online
store_online()->lock_device_hotplug()
- Mem online via sysfs state:
store_mem_state()->lock_device_hotplug()
- ACPI CPU & Mem hot-add:
acpi_scan_bus_device_check()->lock_device_hotplug()
- ACPI CPU & Mem hot-delete:
acpi_scan_hot_remove()->lock_device_hotplug()
try_offline_node() off-lines a node if all memory sections and cpus are
removed on the node. It is called from acpi_processor_remove() and
acpi_memory_remove_memory()->remove_memory() paths, both of which are in
the ACPI hotplug code.
try_offline_node() calls stop_machine() to stop all cpus while checking
all cpu status with the assumption that the caller is not protected from
CPU hotplug or CPU online/offline operations. However, the caller is
always serialized with lock_device_hotplug(). Also, the code needs to be
properly serialized with a lock, not by stopping all cpus at a random
place with stop_machine().
This patch removes the use of stop_machine() in try_offline_node() and
adds comments to try_offline_node() and remove_memory() that
lock_device_hotplug() is required.
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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