linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 2/6] mm/hwpoison: remove race consideration

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Message-ID: <25c69dc8-0ce2-8330-dfb0-506481dc9a53@sangfor.com.cn>
Date:   Tue, 15 Jun 2021 20:57:06 +0800
From:   Ding Hui <dinghui@...gfor.com.cn>
To:     Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@...il.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@....com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/6] mm/hwpoison: remove race consideration

On 2021/6/14 10:12, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> @@ -1956,17 +1938,6 @@ int unpoison_memory(unsigned long pfn)
>   		goto unlock_mutex;
>   	}
>   
> -	/*
> -	 * unpoison_memory() can encounter thp only when the thp is being
> -	 * worked by memory_failure() and the page lock is not held yet.
> -	 * In such case, we yield to memory_failure() and make unpoison fail.
> -	 */
> -	if (!PageHuge(page) && PageTransHuge(page)) {
> -		unpoison_pr_info("Unpoison: Memory failure is now running on %#lx\n",
> -				 pfn, &unpoison_rs);
> -		goto unlock_mutex;
> -	}
> -

if a huge page is in process of alloc or free, HUGETLB_PAGE_DTOR can be 
set after __SetPageHead() or be cleared before __ClearPageHead(), so 
this condition may be true in racy.

Do we need the racy test for this situation?

>   	if (!get_hwpoison_page(p, flags)) {
>   		if (TestClearPageHWPoison(p))
>   			num_poisoned_pages_dec();
-- 
Thanks,
- Ding Hui