linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mce: Set PG_hwpoison page flag to avoid the capture kernel panic

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Date:   Mon, 27 Mar 2023 08:37:41 +0000
From:   HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口　直也) 
        <naoya.horiguchi@....com>
To:     Zhiquan Li <zhiquan1.li@...el.com>
CC:     "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
        "linux-edac@...r.kernel.org" <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "patches@...ts.linux.dev" <patches@...ts.linux.dev>,
        "tony.luck@...el.com" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        "bp@...en8.de" <bp@...en8.de>,
        "youquan.song@...el.com" <youquan.song@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mce: Set PG_hwpoison page flag to avoid the
 capture kernel panic

On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 10:33:58AM +0800, Zhiquan Li wrote:
> Kdump can exclude the HWPosion page to avoid touch the error page
> again, the prerequisite is the PG_hwpoison page flag is set.
> However, for some MCE fatal error cases, there is no opportunity
> to queue a task for calling memory_failure(), as a result,
> the capture kernel touches the error page again and panics.
> 
> Add function mce_set_page_hwpoison_now() which marks a page as
> HWPoison before kernel panic() for MCE error, so that the dump
> program can check and skip the error page and prevent the capture
> kernel panic.
> 
> [Tony: Changed TestSetPageHWPoison() to SetPageHWPoison()]
> 
> Co-developed-by: Youquan Song <youquan.song@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Youquan Song <youquan.song@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Zhiquan Li <zhiquan1.li@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>

Looks good to me, thank you.

Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@....com>