linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: soft-offline: fix num_poisoned

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Date:	Thu, 23 Apr 2015 19:42:49 -0500
From:	Dean Nelson <dnelson@...hat.com>
To:	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: soft-offline: fix num_poisoned_pages counting on
 concurrent events

On 04/20/2015 11:18 PM, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> If multiple soft offline events hit one free page/hugepage concurrently,
> soft_offline_page() can handle the free page/hugepage multiple times,
> which makes num_poisoned_pages counter increased more than once.
> This patch fixes this wrong counting by checking TestSetPageHWPoison for
> normal papes and by checking the return value of dequeue_hwpoisoned_huge_page()
> for hugepages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>

Acked-by: Dean Nelson <dnelson@...hat.com>


> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org  # v3.14+
> ---
> # This problem might happen before 3.14, but it's rare and non-critical,
> # so I want this patch to be backported to stable trees only if the patch
> # cleanly applies (i.e. v3.14+).
> ---
>   mm/memory-failure.c | 8 ++++----
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git v4.0.orig/mm/memory-failure.c v4.0/mm/memory-failure.c
> index 2cc1d578144b..72a5224c8084 100644
> --- v4.0.orig/mm/memory-failure.c
> +++ v4.0/mm/memory-failure.c
> @@ -1721,12 +1721,12 @@ int soft_offline_page(struct page *page, int flags)
>   	} else if (ret == 0) { /* for free pages */
>   		if (PageHuge(page)) {
>   			set_page_hwpoison_huge_page(hpage);
> -			dequeue_hwpoisoned_huge_page(hpage);
> -			atomic_long_add(1 << compound_order(hpage),
> +			if (!dequeue_hwpoisoned_huge_page(hpage))
> +				atomic_long_add(1 << compound_order(hpage),
>   					&num_poisoned_pages);
>   		} else {
> -			SetPageHWPoison(page);
> -			atomic_long_inc(&num_poisoned_pages);
> +			if (!TestSetPageHWPoison(page))
> +				atomic_long_inc(&num_poisoned_pages);
>   		}
>   	}
>   	unset_migratetype_isolate(page, MIGRATE_MOVABLE);
> 

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