Presently an error is returned in response to hcall H_SCM_BIND_MEM when a
new kernel boots on lpar via kexec. This prevents papr_scm from registering
drc memory regions with nvdimm. The error reported is of the form below:
"papr_scm ibm,persistent-memory:ibm,pmemory@44100002: bind err: -68"
On investigation it was revealed that phyp returns this error as previous
kernel did not completely release bindings for drc scm-memory blocks and
hence phyp rejected request for re-binding these block to lpar with error
H_OVERLAP. Also support for a new H_SCM_UNBIND_ALL is recently added which
is better suited for releasing all the bound scm-memory block from an lpar.
So leveraging new hcall H_SCM_UNBIND_ALL, we can workaround H_OVERLAP issue
during kexec by forcing an unbind of all drm scm-memory blocks and issuing
H_SCM_BIND_MEM to re-bind the drc scm-memory blocks to lpar. This sequence
will also be needed when a new kernel boot on lpar after previous kernel
panicked and it never got an opportunity to call H_SCM_UNBIND_MEM/ALL.
Hence this patch-set implements following changes to papr_scm module:
* Update hvcall.h to include opcodes for new hcall H_SCM_UNBIND_ALL.
* Update it to use H_SCM_UNBIND_ALL instead of H_SCM_UNBIND_MEM
* In case hcall H_SCM_BIND_MEM fails with error H_OVERLAP, force
H_SCM_UNBIND_ALL and retry the bind operation again.
With the patch-set applied re-bind of drc scm-memory to lpar succeeds after
a kexec to new kernel as illustrated below:
# Old kernel
$ sudo ndctl list -R
[
{
"dev":"region0",
<snip>
....
}
]
# kexec to new kernel
$ sudo kexec --initrd=... vmlinux
...
...
I'm in purgatory
...
papr_scm ibm,persistent-memory:ibm,pmemory@44100002: Un-binding and retrying
...
# New kernel
$ sudo ndctl list -R
[
{
"dev":"region0",
<snip>
....
}
]
---
Change-log:
v3:
* Fixed a build warning reported by kbuild test robot.
* Updated the hcall opcode from latest papr-scm specification.
* Fixed a minor code comment & patch description as pointed out by Oliver.
v2:
* Addressed review comments from Oliver on v1 patchset.
Vaibhav Jain (3):
powerpc/pseries: Update SCM hcall op-codes in hvcall.h
powerpc/papr_scm: Update drc_pmem_unbind() to use H_SCM_UNBIND_ALL
powerpc/papr_scm: Force a scm-unbind if initial scm-bind fails
arch/powerpc/include/asm/hvcall.h | 11 ++++--
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++-----
2 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
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