linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] mm/madvise: Add MF_ACTION_REQUIRED to madvise(MADV

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Date: Wed, 15 May 2024 13:44:22 +0200
From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
To: Jane Chu <jane.chu@...cle.com>
Cc: linmiaohe@...wei.com, nao.horiguchi@...il.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] mm/madvise: Add MF_ACTION_REQUIRED to
 madvise(MADV_HWPOISON)

On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 12:25:59AM -0600, Jane Chu wrote:
> The soft hwpoison injector via madvise(MADV_HWPOISON) operates in
> a synchrous way in a sense, the injector is also a process under
> test, and should it have the poisoned page mapped in its address
> space, it should legitimately get killed as much as in a real UE
> situation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@...cle.com>

You should also mention that this aligns with what the madvise man page
mentions:

"... This operation may result in the calling process receiving a SIGBUS
and the page being unmapped..."

Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <oalvador@...e.de>

> ---
>  mm/madvise.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
> index c8ba3f3eb54d..d8a01d7b2860 100644
> --- a/mm/madvise.c
> +++ b/mm/madvise.c
> @@ -1147,7 +1147,7 @@ static int madvise_inject_error(int behavior,
>  		} else {
>  			pr_info("Injecting memory failure for pfn %#lx at process virtual address %#lx\n",
>  				 pfn, start);
> -			ret = memory_failure(pfn, MF_COUNT_INCREASED | MF_SW_SIMULATED);
> +			ret = memory_failure(pfn, MF_ACTION_REQUIRED | MF_COUNT_INCREASED | MF_SW_SIMULATED);
>  			if (ret == -EOPNOTSUPP)
>  				ret = 0;
>  		}
> -- 
> 2.39.3
> 

-- 
Oscar Salvador
SUSE Labs