[PATCH 1/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Fix a bug in the hot-add code
KY Srinivasan
kys at microsoft.com
Fri Jul 12 21:07:19 UTC 2013
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Hutchings [mailto:ben at decadent.org.uk]
> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 4:17 PM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: gregkh at linuxfoundation.org; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org;
> devel at linuxdriverproject.org; olaf at aepfle.de; apw at canonical.com;
> jasowang at redhat.com; Stable
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Fix a bug in the hot-add code
>
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 06:56:14AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > As we hot-add 128 MB chunks of memory, we wait to ensure that the memory
> > is onlined before attempting to hot-add the next chunk. If the udev rule for
> > memory hot-add is not executed within the allowed time, we would rollback
> the
> > state and abort further hot-add. Since the hot-add has succeeded and the only
> > failure is that the memory is not onlined within the allowed time, we should not
> > be rolling back the state. Fix this bug.
> [...]
> > /*
> > * Wait for the memory block to be onlined.
> > */
> > - t = wait_for_completion_timeout(&dm_device.ol_waitevent,
> 5*HZ);
> > - if (t == 0) {
> > - pr_info("hot_add memory timedout\n");
> > - has->ha_end_pfn -= HA_CHUNK;
> > - has->covered_end_pfn -= processed_pfn;
> > - break;
> > - }
> > + wait_for_completion_timeout(&dm_device.ol_waitevent,
> 5*HZ);
> >
> > }
> >
>
> Well now it might look like a bug that you don't test the result
> of wait_for_completion_timeout(). Maybe update the comment to
> explain why it's OK to continue anyway?
I put in the comment in the patch explaining why it is ok to continue. To reiterate,
it is ok to continue because hot add has succeeded. More importantly, what I was
doing earlier - rolling back the state when in fact hot add had succeeded was incorrect.
Regards,
K. Y
>
> Ben.
>
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> Ben Hutchings
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>
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