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PCI: vmd: Create domain symlink before pci_bus_add_devices()
The vmd driver creates a "domain" symlink in sysfs for each VMD bridge.
Previously this symlink was created after pci_bus_add_devices() added
devices below the VMD bridge and emitted udev events to announce them to
userspace.
This led to a race between userspace consumers of the udev events and the
kernel creation of the symlink. One such consumer is mdadm, which
assembles block devices into a RAID array, and for devices below a VMD
bridge, mdadm depends on the "domain" symlink.
If mdadm loses the race, it may be unable to assemble a RAID array, which
may cause a boot failure or other issues, with complaints like this:
(udev-worker)[2149]: nvme1n1: '/sbin/mdadm -I /dev/nvme1n1'(err) 'mdadm: Unable to get real path for '/sys/bus/pci/drivers/vmd/0000:c7:00.5/domain/device''
(udev-worker)[2149]: nvme1n1: '/sbin/mdadm -I /dev/nvme1n1'(err) 'mdadm: /dev/nvme1n1 is not attached to Intel(R) RAID controller.'
(udev-worker)[2149]: nvme1n1: '/sbin/mdadm -I /dev/nvme1n1'(err) 'mdadm: No OROM/EFI properties for /dev/nvme1n1'
(udev-worker)[2149]: nvme1n1: '/sbin/mdadm -I /dev/nvme1n1'(err) 'mdadm: no RAID superblock on /dev/nvme1n1.'
(udev-worker)[2149]: nvme1n1: Process '/sbin/mdadm -I /dev/nvme1n1' failed with exit code 1.
This symptom prevents the OS from booting successfully.
After a NVMe disk is probed/added by the nvme driver, udevd invokes mdadm
to detect if there is a mdraid associated with this NVMe disk, and mdadm
determines if a NVMe device is connected to a particular VMD domain by
checking the "domain" symlink. For example:
Thread A Thread B Thread mdadm
vmd_enable_domain
pci_bus_add_devices
__driver_probe_device
...
work_on_cpu
schedule_work_on
: wakeup Thread B
nvme_probe
: wakeup scan_work
to scan nvme disk
and add nvme disk
then wakeup udevd
: udevd executes
mdadm command
flush_work main
: wait for nvme_probe done ...
__driver_probe_device find_driver_devices
: probe next nvme device : 1) Detect domain symlink
... 2) Find domain symlink
... from vmd sysfs
... 3) Domain symlink not
... created yet; failed
sysfs_create_link
: create domain symlink
Create the VMD "domain" symlink before invoking pci_bus_add_devices() to
avoid this race.
Suggested-by: Adrian Huang <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jiwei Sun <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wilczyński <[email protected]>
[bhelgaas: commit log]
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Nirmal Patel <[email protected]>
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