linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] HWPOISON, hugetlbfs: fix warning on freeing hwpoisoned hugepage

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Date:	Fri,  7 Dec 2012 10:49:57 -0500
From:	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
To:	aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@...el.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] HWPOISON, hugetlbfs: fix warning on freeing hwpoisoned hugepage

On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 01:24:45PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 11:06:41AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > ...
> >> > From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
> >> > Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 20:54:30 -0500
> >> > Subject: [PATCH v2] HWPOISON, hugetlbfs: fix warning on freeing hwpoisoned
> >> >  hugepage
> >> >
> >> > This patch fixes the warning from __list_del_entry() which is triggered
> >> > when a process tries to do free_huge_page() for a hwpoisoned hugepage.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Can you get a dump stack for that. I am confused because the page was
> >> already in freelist, and we deleted it from the list and set the
> >> refcount to 1. So how are we reaching free_huge_page() again ?
> >
> > free_huge_page() can be called for hwpoisoned hugepage from unpoison_memory().
> > This function gets refcount once and clears PageHWPoison, and then puts
> > refcount twice to return the hugepage back to free pool.
> > The second put_page() finally reaches free_huge_page().
> >
> 
> Can we add this also to the commit message ?. With that you can add
> 
> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

OK, I added it.
Thanks for the review!

Naoya
---
From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 20:54:30 -0500
Subject: [PATCH v4] HWPOISON, hugetlbfs: fix warning on freeing hwpoisoned
 hugepage

This patch fixes the warning from __list_del_entry() which is triggered
when a process tries to do free_huge_page() for a hwpoisoned hugepage.

ChangeLog v4:
 - Add comment about when the warning is triggered

ChangeLog v3:
 - Add comment

ChangeLog v2:
 - simply use list_del_init instead of introducing new hugepage list

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 mm/hugetlb.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 59a0059..2511bcb 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -3170,7 +3170,13 @@ int dequeue_hwpoisoned_huge_page(struct page *hpage)
 
 	spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
 	if (is_hugepage_on_freelist(hpage)) {
-		list_del(&hpage->lru);
+		/* 
+		 * Hwpoisoned hugepage isn't linked to activelist or freelist,
+		 * but dangling hpage->lru can trigger list-debug warnings
+		 * (this happens when we call unpoison_memory() on it),
+		 * so let it point to itself with list_del_init().
+		 */
+		list_del_init(&hpage->lru);
 		set_page_refcounted(hpage);
 		h->free_huge_pages--;
 		h->free_huge_pages_node[nid]--;
-- 
1.7.11.7

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