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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 17:13:12 +0800
From: Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
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Subject: Re: [External] Re: [PATCH v18 5/9] mm: hugetlb: set the PageHWPoison
to the raw error page
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 4:50 PM Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu 11-03-21 14:34:04, Muchun Song wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 11:28 PM Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon 08-03-21 18:28:03, Muchun Song wrote:
> > > > Because we reuse the first tail vmemmap page frame and remap it
> > > > with read-only, we cannot set the PageHWPosion on some tail pages.
> > > > So we can use the head[4].private (There are at least 128 struct
> > > > page structures associated with the optimized HugeTLB page, so
> > > > using head[4].private is safe) to record the real error page index
> > > > and set the raw error page PageHWPoison later.
> > >
> > > Can we have more poisoned tail pages? Also who does consume that index
> > > and set the HWPoison on the proper tail page?
> >
> > Good point. I look at the routine of memory failure closely.
> > If we do not clear the HWPoison of the head page, we cannot
> > poison another tail page.
> >
> > So we should not set the destructor of the huge page from
> > HUGETLB_PAGE_DTOR to NULL_COMPOUND_DTOR
> > before calling alloc_huge_page_vmemmap(). In this case,
> > the below check of PageHuge() always returns true.
> >
> > I need to fix this in the previous patch.
> >
> > memory_failure()
> > if (PageHuge(page))
> > memory_failure_hugetlb()
> > head = compound_head(page)
> > if (TestSetPageHWPoison(head))
> > return
>
> I have to say that I am not fully familiar with hwpoisoning code
> (especially after recent changes) but IIRC it does rely on hugetlb page
> dissolving. With the new code this operation can fail which is a new
> situation. Unless I am misunderstanding this can lead to a lost memory
> failure operation on other tail pages.
>
> Anyway the above answers the question why a single slot is sufficient so
> it would be great to mention that in a changelog along with the caveat
> that some pages might miss their poisoning.
OK. I will update the changelog. Thanks for your suggestions.
> --
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs
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