linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 14/14] mm,hwpoison: Try to narrow window race for free pages

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Date:   Wed, 23 Sep 2020 07:40:21 +0000
From:   HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口　直也) 
        <naoya.horiguchi@....com>
To:     Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
CC:     "akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "aris@...vo.org" <aris@...vo.org>,
        "mhocko@...nel.org" <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        "tony.luck@...el.com" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        "cai@....pw" <cai@....pw>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 14/14] mm,hwpoison: Try to narrow window race for free
 pages

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 03:56:50PM +0200, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> Aristeu Rozanski reported that a customer test case started
> to report -EBUSY after the hwpoison rework patchset.
> 
> There is a race window between spotting a free page and taking it off
> its buddy freelist, so it might be that by the time we try to take it off,
> the page has been already allocated.
> 
> This patch tries to handle such race window by trying to handle the new
> type of page again if the page was allocated under us.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
> Reported-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@...vo.org>
> Tested-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@...vo.org>

Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@....com>

> ---
>  mm/memory-failure.c | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
> index 46b1821d2817..8f23d3c7a0a2 100644
> --- a/mm/memory-failure.c
> +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
> @@ -1903,6 +1903,7 @@ int soft_offline_page(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
>  {
>  	int ret;
>  	struct page *page;
> +	bool try_again = true;
>  
>  	if (!pfn_valid(pfn))
>  		return -ENXIO;
> @@ -1918,6 +1919,7 @@ int soft_offline_page(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
>  		return 0;
>  	}
>  
> +retry:
>  	get_online_mems();
>  	ret = get_any_page(page, pfn, flags);
>  	put_online_mems();
> @@ -1925,7 +1927,10 @@ int soft_offline_page(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
>  	if (ret > 0)
>  		ret = soft_offline_in_use_page(page);
>  	else if (ret == 0)
> -		ret = soft_offline_free_page(page);
> +		if (soft_offline_free_page(page) && try_again) {
> +			try_again = false;
> +			goto retry;
> +		}
>  
>  	return ret;
>  }
> -- 
> 2.26.2
>