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Commit a95c90f1 authored by Dan Williams's avatar Dan Williams Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm, devm_memremap_pages: fix shutdown handling

The last step before devm_memremap_pages() returns success is to allocate
a release action, devm_memremap_pages_release(), to tear the entire setup
down.  However, the result from devm_add_action() is not checked.

Checking the error from devm_add_action() is not enough.  The api
currently relies on the fact that the percpu_ref it is using is killed by
the time the devm_memremap_pages_release() is run.  Rather than continue
this awkward situation, offload the responsibility of killing the
percpu_ref to devm_memremap_pages_release() directly.  This allows
devm_memremap_pages() to do the right thing relative to init failures and
shutdown.

Without this change we could fail to register the teardown of
devm_memremap_pages().  The likelihood of hitting this failure is tiny as
small memory allocations almost always succeed.  However, the impact of
the failure is large given any future reconfiguration, or disable/enable,
of an nvdimm namespace will fail forever as subsequent calls to
devm_memremap_pages() will fail to setup the pgmap_radix since there will
be stale entries for the physical address range.

An argument could be made to require that the ->kill() operation be set in
the @pgmap arg rather than passed in separately.  However, it helps code
readability, tracking the lifetime of a given instance, to be able to grep
the kill routine directly at the devm_memremap_pages() call site.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154275558526.76910.7535251937849268605.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Fixes: e8d51348

 ("memremap: change devm_memremap_pages interface...")
Reviewed-by: default avatar"Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com>
Reported-by: default avatarLogan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarLogan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 06489cfb
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