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Message-Id: <20220607145959.785e54c752f373bcc283732b@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2022 14:59:59 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Cc: HORIGUCHI NAOYA (堀口 直也)
<naoya.horiguchi@....com>, zhenwei pi <pizhenwei@...edance.com>,
"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/memory-failure: don't allow to unpoison hw corrupted
page
On Tue, 7 Jun 2022 14:36:00 +0200 David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com> wrote:
> On 06.06.22 11:15, HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也) wrote:
> >>> [ 917.864266] <TASK>
> >>> [ 917.864961] clear_huge_page+0x147/0x270
> >>> [ 917.866236] hugetlb_fault+0x440/0xad0
> >>> [ 917.867366] handle_mm_fault+0x270/0x290
> >>> [ 917.868532] do_user_addr_fault+0x1c3/0x680
> >>> [ 917.869768] exc_page_fault+0x6c/0x160
> >>> [ 917.870912] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x8/0x30
> >>> [ 917.872082] asm_exc_page_fault+0x1e/0x30
> >>> [ 917.873220] RIP: 0033:0x7f2aeb8ba367
> >>>
> >>> I don't think of a workaround for this now ...
> >>>
> >>
> >> Could you please tell me how to reproduce this issue?
> >
> > You are familiar with qemu-monitor-command, so the following procedure
> > should work for you:
> >
> > - run a process using hugepages on your VM,
> > - check the guest physical address of the hugepage (page-types.c is helpful for this),
> > - inject a MCE with virsh qemu-monitor-command on the guest physical address, then
> > - unpoison the injected physical address.
>
> That's triggered via debugfs / HWPOISON_INJECT, right?
>
> That's a DEBUG_KERNEL option, so I'm not 100% sure if we really want to
> cc stable.
Sure, it's hardly a must-have. But let's also take the patch
complexity&risk into account. This is one dang simple patch.
Or is it. Should these things be happening outside mf_mutex? What the
heck is the role of mf_mutex anyway?
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