linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/6] mm/hwpoison: fix lose PG_dirty flag for errors on mlocked pages

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Message-Id: <1377164907-24801-1-git-send-email-liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:48:22 +0800
From:	Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, gong.chen@...ux.intel.com,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/6] mm/hwpoison: fix lose PG_dirty flag for errors on mlocked pages

memory_failure() store the page flag of the error page before doing unmap, 
and (only) if the first check with page flags at the time decided the error 
page is unknown, it do the second check with the stored page flag since 
memory_failure() does unmapping of the error pages before doing page_action(). 
This unmapping changes the page state, especially page_remove_rmap() (called 
from try_to_unmap_one()) clears PG_mlocked, so page_action() can't catch 
mlocked pages after that. 

However, memory_failure() can't handle memory errors on dirty mlocked pages 
correctly. try_to_unmap_one will move the dirty bit from pte to the physical 
page, the second check lose it since it check the stored page flag. This patch 
fix it by restore PG_dirty flag to stored page flag if the page is dirty.

Testcase:

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <errno.h>

#define PAGES_TO_TEST 2
#define PAGE_SIZE	4096

int main(void)
{
	char *mem;
	int i;

	mem = mmap(NULL, PAGES_TO_TEST * PAGE_SIZE,
			PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_LOCKED, 0, 0);

	for (i = 0; i < PAGES_TO_TEST; i++)
		mem[i * PAGE_SIZE] = 'a';

	if (madvise(mem, PAGES_TO_TEST * PAGE_SIZE, MADV_HWPOISON) == -1)
		return -1;

	return 0;
}

Before patch:

[  912.839247] Injecting memory failure for page 7dfb8 at 7f6b4e37b000
[  912.839257] MCE 0x7dfb8: clean mlocked LRU page recovery: Recovered
[  912.845550] MCE 0x7dfb8: clean mlocked LRU page still referenced by 1 users
[  912.852586] Injecting memory failure for page 7e6aa at 7f6b4e37c000
[  912.852594] MCE 0x7e6aa: clean mlocked LRU page recovery: Recovered
[  912.858936] MCE 0x7e6aa: clean mlocked LRU page still referenced by 1 users

After patch:

[  163.590225] Injecting memory failure for page 91bc2f at 7f9f5b0e5000
[  163.590264] MCE 0x91bc2f: dirty mlocked LRU page recovery: Recovered
[  163.596680] MCE 0x91bc2f: dirty mlocked LRU page still referenced by 1 users
[  163.603831] Injecting memory failure for page 91cdd3 at 7f9f5b0e6000
[  163.603852] MCE 0x91cdd3: dirty mlocked LRU page recovery: Recovered
[  163.610305] MCE 0x91cdd3: dirty mlocked LRU page still referenced by 1 users

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 mm/memory-failure.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index bee58d8..e156084 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -1206,6 +1206,9 @@ int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int trapno, int flags)
 	for (ps = error_states;; ps++)
 		if ((p->flags & ps->mask) == ps->res)
 			break;
+
+	page_flags |= (p->flags & (1UL << PG_dirty));
+
 	if (!ps->mask)
 		for (ps = error_states;; ps++)
 			if ((page_flags & ps->mask) == ps->res)
-- 
1.7.7.6

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