Patch "powerpc/pseries: Enable RAS hotplug events later" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

powerpc/pseries: Enable RAS hotplug events later

to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
powerpc-pseries-enable-ras-hotplug-events-later.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Sam Bobroff <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 11:19:29 +1100
Subject: powerpc/pseries: Enable RAS hotplug events later

From: Sam Bobroff <[email protected]>

commit c9dccf1d074a67d36c510845f663980d69e3409b upstream.

Currently if the kernel receives a memory hot-unplug event early enough, it may get stuck in an infinite loop in dissolve_free_huge_pages(). This appears as a stall just after:

pseries-hotplug-mem: Attempting to hot-remove XX LMB(s) at YYYYYYYY

It appears to be caused by "minimum_order" being uninitialized, due to init_ras_IRQ() executing before hugetlb_init().

To correct this, extract the part of init_ras_IRQ() that enables hotplug event processing and place it in the machine_late_initcall phase, which is guaranteed to be after hugetlb_init() is called.

---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c |   31 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

@@ -49,6 +49,28 @@ static irqreturn_t ras_error_interrupt(i
 
 
 /*
+ * Enable the hotplug interrupt late because processing them may touch other
+ * devices or systems (e.g. hugepages) that have not been initialized at the
+ * subsys stage.
+ */
+int __init init_ras_hotplug_IRQ(void)
+{
+	struct device_node *np;
+
+	/* Hotplug Events */
+	np = of_find_node_by_path("/event-sources/hot-plug-events");
+	if (np != NULL) {
+		if (dlpar_workqueue_init() == 0)
+			request_event_sources_irqs(np, ras_hotplug_interrupt,
+						   "RAS_HOTPLUG");
+		of_node_put(np);
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+machine_late_initcall(pseries, init_ras_hotplug_IRQ);
+
+/*
  * Initialize handlers for the set of interrupts caused by hardware errors
  * and power system events.
  */

@@ -66,15 +88,6 @@ static int __init init_ras_IRQ(void)
 		of_node_put(np);
 	}
 
-	/* Hotplug Events */
-	np = of_find_node_by_path("/event-sources/hot-plug-events");
-	if (np != NULL) {
-		if (dlpar_workqueue_init() == 0)
-			request_event_sources_irqs(np, ras_hotplug_interrupt,
-					   "RAS_HOTPLUG");
-		of_node_put(np);
-	}
-
 	/* EPOW Events */
 	np = of_find_node_by_path("/event-sources/epow-events");
 	if (np != NULL) {

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.15/powerpc-pseries-enable-ras-hotplug-events-later.patch