linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] mm,hwpoison: add kill_accessing

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Message-ID: <20210420154730.GA577592@agluck-desk2.amr.corp.intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 20 Apr 2021 08:47:30 -0700
From:   "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:     Jue Wang <juew@...gle.com>
Cc:     nao.horiguchi@...il.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, bp@...en8.de,
        david@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        luto@...nel.org, naoya.horiguchi@....com, osalvador@...e.de,
        yaoaili@...gsoft.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] mm,hwpoison: add kill_accessing_process() to find
 error virtual address

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 07:03:01PM -0700, Jue Wang wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 07:43:20 +0900, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> 
> > This patch suggests to do page table walk to find the error virtual
> > address.  If we find multiple virtual addresses in walking, we now can't
> > determine which one is correct, so we fall back to sending SIGBUS in
> > kill_me_maybe() without error info as we do now.  This corner case needs
> > to be solved in the future.
> 
> Instead of walking the page tables, I wonder what about the following idea:
> 
> When failing to get vaddr, memory_failure just ensures the mapping is removed
> and an hwpoisoned swap pte is put in place; or the original page is flagged with
> PG_HWPOISONED and kept in the radix tree (e.g., for SHMEM THP).

To remove the mapping, you need to know the virtual address :-)

Well, I did try a patch that removed *all* user mappings (switched CR3 to
swapper_pgdir) and returned to user. Then have the resulting page fault
report the address. But that didn't work very well.

> NOTE: no SIGBUS is sent to user space.
> 
> Then do_machine_check just returns to user space to resume execution, the
> re-execution will result in a #PF and should land to the exact page fault
> handling code that generates a SIGBUS with the precise vaddr info:

That's how SRAO (and other races) are supposed to work.

-Tony