linux-kernel - Re: mm/memory-failure: __get_any

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Date:   Wed, 10 Aug 2022 13:27:12 -0700
From:   Kallol Biswas <nucleodyne@...il.com>
To:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mm/memory-failure: __get_any_page: unknown zero refcount

Probably we are hitting a race condition. Upstream code has changed.

On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 2:28 PM Kallol Biswas <nucleodyne@...il.com> wrote:
>
> While running a memory RAS test on a new platform I encountered the
> following on the 5.10.117 kernel.
>
> __get_any_page: 0x77df: unknown zero refcount page type 7fffe000000000
>
> The address 0x77df000 is in a system ram area:
> 00100000-5c9c0017 : System RAM
>
> The page is not a huge page, not on the free buddy list and not in use.
>
> __get_any_page()
> ..................
>  if (!get_hwpoison_page(p)) {
>     if (PageHuge(p)) {
>       pr_info("%s: %#lx free huge page\n", __func__, pfn);
>       ret = 0;
>     } else if (is_free_buddy_page(p)) {
>       pr_info("%s: %#lx free buddy page\n", __func__, pfn);
>       ret = 0;
>     } else if (page_count(p)) {
>       /* raced with allocation */
>       ret = -EBUSY;
>     } else {
>       pr_info("%s: %#lx: unknown zero refcount page type %lx\n",
>         __func__, pfn, p->flags);
>
>
> Sparse mem configs are set:
> cat /boot/config-5.10.117-2.el7.nutanix.20220304.1002776.x86_64 | grep -i sparse
> CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ=y
> CONFIG_ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE=y
> CONFIG_ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT=y
> CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_MANUAL=y
> CONFIG_SPARSEMEM=y
> CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y
> CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE=y
> CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP=y
> CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE=y
>
> Can someone help understand why we have such a page in the system?
> What the purpose is.
>
> Thank you,
> Kallol