This patch adds support for flushing potentially dirty cache lines
when memory is hot-plugged/hot-un-plugged. The support is currently
limited to 64 bit systems.
The bug was exposed when mappings for a device were actually
hot-unplugged and plugged in back later. A similar issue was observed
during the development of memtrace, but memtrace does it's own
flushing of region via a custom routine.
These patches do a flush both on hotplug/unplug to clear any stale
data in the cache w.r.t mappings, there is a small race window where a
clean cache line may be created again just prior to tearing down the
mapping.
The patches were tested by disabling the flush routines in memtrace
and doing I/O on the trace file. The system immediately
checkstops (quite reliablly if prior to the hot-unplug of the memtrace
region, we memset the regions we are about to hot unplug). After these
patches no custom flushing is needed in the memtrace code.
Fixes: 9d5171a8f2 ("powerpc/powernv: Enable removal of memory for in memory tracing")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.14+
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Rashmica Gupta <rashmica.g@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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