linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Uncharge poisoned pages

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Message-ID: <1493171698.4828.1.camel@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 26 Apr 2017 11:54:58 +1000
From:   Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>
To:     Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Uncharge poisoned pages

On Tue, 2017-04-25 at 16:27 +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> When page are poisoned, they should be uncharged from the root memory
> cgroup.
> 
> This is required to avoid a BUG raised when the page is onlined back:
> BUG: Bad page state in process mem-on-off-test  pfn:7ae3b
> page:f000000001eb8ec0 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping:          (null)
> index:0x1
> flags: 0x3ffff800200000(hwpoison)
> raw: 003ffff800200000 0000000000000000 0000000000000001
> 00000000ffffffff
> raw: 5deadbeef0000100 5deadbeef0000200 0000000000000000
> c0000007fe055800
> page dumped because: page still charged to cgroup
> page->mem_cgroup:c0000007fe055800
> Modules linked in: pseries_rng rng_core vmx_crypto virtio_balloon
> ip_tables x_tables autofs4 virtio_blk virtio_net virtio_pci
> virtio_ring virtio
> CPU: 34 PID: 5946 Comm: mem-on-off-test Tainted: G    B 4.11.0-rc7-hwp
> Call Trace:
> [c0000007e4a737f0] [c000000000958e8c] dump_stack+0xb0/0xf0
> (unreliable)
> [c0000007e4a73830] [c00000000021588c] bad_page+0x11c/0x190
> [c0000007e4a738c0] [c00000000021757c] free_pcppages_bulk+0x46c/0x600
> [c0000007e4a73990] [c00000000021924c] free_hot_cold_page+0x2ec/0x320
> [c0000007e4a739e0] [c0000000002a6440] generic_online_page+0x50/0x70
> [c0000007e4a73a10] [c0000000002a6184] online_pages_range+0x94/0xe0
> [c0000007e4a73a70] [c00000000005a2b0] walk_system_ram_range+0xe0/0x120
> [c0000007e4a73ac0] [c0000000002cce44] online_pages+0x2b4/0x6b0
> [c0000007e4a73b60] [c000000000600558] memory_subsys_online+0x218/0x270
> [c0000007e4a73bf0] [c0000000005dec84] device_online+0xb4/0x110
> [c0000007e4a73c30] [c000000000600f00] store_mem_state+0xc0/0x190
> [c0000007e4a73c70] [c0000000005da1d4] dev_attr_store+0x34/0x60
> [c0000007e4a73c90] [c000000000377c70] sysfs_kf_write+0x60/0xa0
> [c0000007e4a73cb0] [c0000000003769fc] kernfs_fop_write+0x16c/0x240
> [c0000007e4a73d00] [c0000000002d1b0c] __vfs_write+0x3c/0x1b0
> [c0000007e4a73d90] [c0000000002d34dc] vfs_write+0xcc/0x230
> [c0000007e4a73de0] [c0000000002d50e0] SyS_write+0x60/0x110
> [c0000007e4a73e30] [c00000000000b760] system_call+0x38/0xfc
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  mm/memory-failure.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
> index 27f7210e7fab..22bd22eb25cb 100644
> --- a/mm/memory-failure.c
> +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
> @@ -529,6 +529,9 @@ static const char * const action_page_types[] = {
>   */
>  static int delete_from_lru_cache(struct page *p)
>  {
> +	if (memcg_kmem_enabled())
> +		memcg_kmem_uncharge(p, 0);
> +

The changelog is not quite clear, so we are uncharging a page using
memcg_kmem_uncharge for a page in swap cache/page cache?

Balbir Singh.