From 500624f28eca441e35f978979ccfb373202fefd3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2026 10:40:15 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] mm/memory-tiers: unregister empty tiers outside memory_tier_lock When offlining a node's last memory empties its tier, clear_node_memory_tier() calls device_unregister() while holding memory_tier_lock. A concurrent sysfs read can hold a kernfs active reference and block in nodelist_show() on that mutex. device_unregister() then waits in kernfs_drain() for the read to finish and release its active reference, while the reader waits for the offlining task to release the mutex. Return the node's former tier from clear_node_memory_tier(), making the helper more similar to set_node_memory_tier(), which also returns a memory_tier pointer. Let the caller unlink an empty tier under memory_tier_lock before rebuilding demotion targets, then unregister its device after dropping the lock. Fixes: 9832fb87834e ("mm/demotion: expose memory tier details via sysfs") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Josef Bacik Reviewed-by: Gregory Price (Meta) Tested-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261031-fixes_core-v3-46-d6437171ecc3@kernel.org Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) --- mm/memory-tiers.c | 29 +++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memory-tiers.c b/mm/memory-tiers.c index 25e121851b58..8eda313cf619 100644 --- a/mm/memory-tiers.c +++ b/mm/memory-tiers.c @@ -572,21 +572,14 @@ static struct memory_tier *set_node_memory_tier(int node) return memtier; } -static void destroy_memory_tier(struct memory_tier *memtier) +static struct memory_tier *clear_node_memory_tier(int node) { - list_del(&memtier->list); - device_unregister(&memtier->dev); -} - -static bool clear_node_memory_tier(int node) -{ - bool cleared = false; pg_data_t *pgdat; struct memory_tier *memtier; pgdat = NODE_DATA(node); if (!pgdat) - return false; + return NULL; /* * Make sure that anybody looking at NODE_DATA who finds @@ -604,14 +597,10 @@ static bool clear_node_memory_tier(int node) synchronize_rcu(); memtype = node_memory_types[node].memtype; node_clear(node, memtype->nodes); - if (nodes_empty(memtype->nodes)) { + if (nodes_empty(memtype->nodes)) list_del_init(&memtype->tier_sibling); - if (list_empty(&memtier->memory_types)) - destroy_memory_tier(memtier); - } - cleared = true; } - return cleared; + return memtier; } static void release_memtype(struct kref *kref) @@ -884,13 +873,21 @@ static int __meminit memtier_hotplug_callback(struct notifier_block *self, { struct memory_tier *memtier; struct node_notify *nn = _arg; + bool empty = false; switch (action) { case NODE_REMOVED_LAST_MEMORY: mutex_lock(&memory_tier_lock); - if (clear_node_memory_tier(nn->nid)) + memtier = clear_node_memory_tier(nn->nid); + if (memtier) { + empty = list_empty(&memtier->memory_types); + if (empty) + list_del(&memtier->list); establish_demotion_targets(); + } mutex_unlock(&memory_tier_lock); + if (empty) + device_unregister(&memtier->dev); break; case NODE_ADDED_FIRST_MEMORY: mutex_lock(&memory_tier_lock);