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IB/ehca: Reject dynamic memory add/remove when ehca adapter is present
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Since the ehca device driver does not support dynamic memory add and
remove operations, the driver must explicitly reject such requests in
order to prevent unpredictable behaviors related to existing memory
regions that cover all of memory being used by InfiniBand protocols in
the kernel.

The solution (for now at least) is to add a memory notifier to the
ehca device driver and if a request for dynamic memory add or remove
comes in, ehca will always reject it.  The user can add or remove
memory by hot-removing the ehca adapter, performing the memory
operation, and then hot-adding the ehca adapter back.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roscher <stefan.roscher@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
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Stefan Roscher authored and Roland Dreier committed Oct 22, 2008
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48 changes: 48 additions & 0 deletions drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_main.c
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#include <linux/slab.h>
#endif

#include <linux/notifier.h>
#include <linux/memory.h>
#include "ehca_classes.h"
#include "ehca_iverbs.h"
#include "ehca_mrmw.h"
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spin_unlock(&shca_list_lock);
}

static int ehca_mem_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb,
unsigned long action, void *data)
{
static unsigned long ehca_dmem_warn_time;

switch (action) {
case MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE:
case MEM_CANCEL_ONLINE:
case MEM_ONLINE:
case MEM_OFFLINE:
return NOTIFY_OK;
case MEM_GOING_ONLINE:
case MEM_GOING_OFFLINE:
/* only ok if no hca is attached to the lpar */
spin_lock(&shca_list_lock);
if (list_empty(&shca_list)) {
spin_unlock(&shca_list_lock);
return NOTIFY_OK;
} else {
spin_unlock(&shca_list_lock);
if (printk_timed_ratelimit(&ehca_dmem_warn_time,
30 * 1000))
ehca_gen_err("DMEM operations are not allowed"
"as long as an ehca adapter is"
"attached to the LPAR");
return NOTIFY_BAD;
}
}
return NOTIFY_OK;
}

static struct notifier_block ehca_mem_nb = {
.notifier_call = ehca_mem_notifier,
};

static int __init ehca_module_init(void)
{
int ret;
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goto module_init2;
}

ret = register_memory_notifier(&ehca_mem_nb);
if (ret) {
ehca_gen_err("Failed registering memory add/remove notifier");
goto module_init3;
}

if (ehca_poll_all_eqs != 1) {
ehca_gen_err("WARNING!!!");
ehca_gen_err("It is possible to lose interrupts.");
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return 0;

module_init3:
ibmebus_unregister_driver(&ehca_driver);

module_init2:
ehca_destroy_slab_caches();

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ibmebus_unregister_driver(&ehca_driver);

unregister_memory_notifier(&ehca_mem_nb);

ehca_destroy_slab_caches();

ehca_destroy_comp_pool();
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