In some cases initial bind of scm memory for an lpar can fail if
previously it wasn't released using a scm-unbind hcall. This situation
can arise due to panic of the previous kernel or forced lpar
fadump. In such cases the H_SCM_BIND_MEM return a H_OVERLAP error.
To mitigate such cases the patch updates papr_scm_probe() to force a
call to drc_pmem_unbind() in case the initial bind of scm memory fails
with EBUSY error. In case scm-bind operation again fails after the
forced scm-unbind then we follow the existing error path. We also
update drc_pmem_bind() to handle the H_OVERLAP error returned by phyp
and indicate it as a EBUSY error back to the caller.
Suggested-by: "Oliver O'Halloran" <oohall@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190629160610.23402-4-vaibhav@linux.ibm.com
static int drc_pmem_bind(struct papr_scm_priv *p)
{
unsigned long ret[PLPAR_HCALL_BUFSIZE];
- uint64_t rc, token;
uint64_t saved = 0;
+ uint64_t token;
+ int64_t rc;
/*
* When the hypervisor cannot map all the requested memory in a single
} while (rc == H_BUSY);
if (rc) {
+ /* H_OVERLAP needs a separate error path */
+ if (rc == H_OVERLAP)
+ return -EBUSY;
+
dev_err(&p->pdev->dev, "bind err: %lld\n", rc);
return -ENXIO;
}
/* request the hypervisor to bind this region to somewhere in memory */
rc = drc_pmem_bind(p);
+
+ /* If phyp says drc memory still bound then force unbound and retry */
+ if (rc == -EBUSY) {
+ dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "Retrying bind after unbinding\n");
+ drc_pmem_unbind(p);
+ rc = drc_pmem_bind(p);
+ }
+
if (rc)
goto err;