While testing memory hot-remove, I found following dead lock:

Process #1141 is drmgr, trying to remove some memory, i.e. memory499.
It holds the memory_hotplug_mutex, and blocks when trying to remove file
"online" under dir memory499, in kernfs_drain(), at
        wait_event(root->deactivate_waitq,
                   atomic_read(&kn->active) == KN_DEACTIVATED_BIAS);

Process #1120 is trying to online memory499 by
   echo 1 > memory499/online

In .kernfs_fop_write, it uses kernfs_get_active() to increase
&kn->active, thus blocking process #1141. While itself is blocked later
when trying to acquire memory_hotplug_mutex, which is held by process

The backtrace of both processes are shown below:

[<c000000001b18600>] 0xc000000001b18600
[<c000000000015044>] .__switch_to+0x144/0x200
[<c000000000263ca4>] .online_pages+0x74/0x7b0
[<c00000000055b40c>] .memory_subsys_online+0x9c/0x150
[<c00000000053cbe8>] .device_online+0xb8/0x120
[<c00000000053cd04>] .online_store+0xb4/0xc0
[<c000000000538ce4>] .dev_attr_store+0x64/0xa0
[<c00000000030f4ec>] .sysfs_kf_write+0x7c/0xb0
[<c00000000030e574>] .kernfs_fop_write+0x154/0x1e0
[<c000000000268450>] .vfs_write+0xe0/0x260
[<c000000000269144>] .SyS_write+0x64/0x110
[<c000000000009ffc>] syscall_exit+0x0/0x7c

[<c000000001b18600>] 0xc000000001b18600
[<c000000000015044>] .__switch_to+0x144/0x200
[<c00000000030be14>] .__kernfs_remove+0x204/0x300
[<c00000000030d428>] .kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x68/0xf0
[<c00000000030fb38>] .sysfs_remove_file_ns+0x38/0x60
[<c000000000539354>] .device_remove_attrs+0x54/0xc0
[<c000000000539fd8>] .device_del+0x158/0x250
[<c00000000053a104>] .device_unregister+0x34/0xa0
[<c00000000055bc14>] .unregister_memory_section+0x164/0x170
[<c00000000024ee18>] .__remove_pages+0x108/0x4c0
[<c00000000004b590>] .arch_remove_memory+0x60/0xc0
[<c00000000026446c>] .remove_memory+0x8c/0xe0
[<c00000000007f9f4>] .pseries_remove_memblock+0xd4/0x160
[<c00000000007fcfc>] .pseries_memory_notifier+0x27c/0x290
[<c0000000008ae6cc>] .notifier_call_chain+0x8c/0x100
[<c0000000000d858c>] .__blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x6c/0xe0
[<c00000000071ddec>] .of_property_notify+0x7c/0xc0
[<c00000000071ed3c>] .of_update_property+0x3c/0x1b0
[<c0000000000756cc>] .ofdt_write+0x3dc/0x740
[<c0000000002f60fc>] .proc_reg_write+0xac/0x110
[<c000000000268450>] .vfs_write+0xe0/0x260
[<c000000000269144>] .SyS_write+0x64/0x110
[<c000000000009ffc>] syscall_exit+0x0/0x7c

This patch uses lock_device_hotplug() to protect remove_memory() called
in pseries_remove_memblock(), which is also stated before function
remove_memory():

 * NOTE: The caller must call lock_device_hotplug() to serialize hotplug
 * and online/offline operations before this call, as required by
 * try_offline_node().
 */
void __ref remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size)

With this lock held, the other process(#1120 above) trying to online the
memory block will retry the system call when calling
lock_device_hotplug_sysfs(), and finally find No such device error.
Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>