linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [0/16] POISON: Intro

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Date:	Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:18:42 +0800
From:	Wu Fengguang <wfg@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [0/16] POISON: Intro

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:47:09PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue,  7 Apr 2009 17:09:56 +0200 (CEST) Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
> 
> > Upcoming Intel CPUs have support for recovering from some memory errors. This
> > requires the OS to declare a page "poisoned", kill the processes associated
> > with it and avoid using it in the future. This patchkit implements
> > the necessary infrastructure in the VM.
> 
> Seems that this feature is crying out for a testing framework (perhaps
> it already has one?).  A simplistic approach would be
> 
> 	echo some-pfn > /proc/bad-pfn-goes-here

How about reusing the /proc/kpageflags interface? i.e. make it writable.

It may sound crazy and way too _hacky_, but it is possible to
attach actions to the state transition of some page flags ;)

PG_poison      0 => 1: call memory_failure()

PG_active      1 => 0: move page into inactive lru
PG_unevictable 1 => 0: move page out of unevictable lru
PG_swapcache   1 => 0: remove page from swap cache
PG_lru         1 => 0: reclaim page

Thanks,
Fengguang

> A slightly more sophisticated version might do the deed from within a
> timer interrupt, just to get a bit more coverage.
> 
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