linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/hwpoison: fix wrong num_poisoned

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Date:	Mon, 4 Apr 2016 18:07:38 +0900
From:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/hwpoison: fix wrong num_poisoned_pages account

On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 03:06:32PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> Currently, migration code increases num_poisoned_pages on failed
> migration page as well as successfully migrated one at the trial
> of memory-failure. It will make the stat wrong.
> 
> As well, it marks page as PG_HWPoison even if the migration trial
> failed. It would make we cannot recover the corrupted page using
> memory-failure facility.
> 
> This patches fixes it.
> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
> Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>

Hello Andrew,

This patch will make conflict with current mmotm which has
my non-lru page migration work.
It's okay to drop my non-lru page migration work to apply this
bug fix patch in current mmotm because I will try to support
userspace mapped drvier non-lru page Vlastimil pointed out
in that thread.

Thanks.

> ---
>  mm/migrate.c | 8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
> index 6c822a7b27e0..f9dfb18a4eba 100644
> --- a/mm/migrate.c
> +++ b/mm/migrate.c
> @@ -975,7 +975,13 @@ static ICE_noinline int unmap_and_move(new_page_t get_new_page,
>  		dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_ISOLATED_ANON +
>  				page_is_file_cache(page));
>  		/* Soft-offlined page shouldn't go through lru cache list */
> -		if (reason == MR_MEMORY_FAILURE) {
> +		if (reason == MR_MEMORY_FAILURE && rc == MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS) {
> +			/*
> +			 * With this release, we free successfully migrated
> +			 * page and set PG_HWPoison on just freed page
> +			 * intentionally. Although it's rather weird, it's how
> +			 * HWPoison flag works at the moment.
> +			 */
>  			put_page(page);
>  			if (!test_set_page_hwpoison(page))
>  				num_poisoned_pages_inc();
> -- 
> 1.9.1
>