linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 0/5] Enhance soft hwpoison handling and injection

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Message-Id: <20240521235429.2368017-1-jane.chu@oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 17:54:24 -0600
From: Jane Chu <jane.chu@...cle.com>
To: linmiaohe@...wei.com, nao.horiguchi@...il.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        osalvador@...e.de, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 0/5] Enhance soft hwpoison handling and injection 

Changes in v3:
  - rebased to mainline as of 5/20/2024
  - added an acked-by from Miaohe Lin
  - picked up a R-B from Oscar Salvador
  - fixed/clarified comments about MF_IGNORED/MF_FAILED definition and
    usage. - Oscar Salvador
  - invoke hwpoison_filter slightly earlier to avoid unnecessary THP split,
    and with refcount held. - Miaohe Lin
  - added comments to try_to_split_thp_page() on when not to release page
    refcount.  - Oscar Salvador
  - added action_result() in a couple cases, but take care not to overwrite
    the intended returns.  - Oscar Salvador

Changes in v2:
  - rebased to mm-stable as of 5/8/2024
  - added RB by Oscar Salvador
  - comments from Oscar on patch 1-of-3: clarify changelog
  - comments from Miahe Lin on patch 3-of-3: remove unnecessary user page
    checking and remove incorrect put_page() in kill_procs_now().
    Invoke kill_procs_now() regardless MF_ACTIN_REQUIRED is set or not,
    moved hwpoison_filter() higher up.
  - added two patches 3-of-5 and 4-of-5 

This series aim at the following enhancement -
- Let one hwpoison injector, that is, madvise(MADV_HWPOISON) to behave
  more like as if a real UE occurred. Because the other two injectors
  such as hwpoison-inject and the 'einj' on x86 can't, and it seems to
  me we need a better simulation to real UE scenario.
- For years, if the kernel is unable to unmap a hwpoisoned page, it send
  a SIGKILL instead of SIGBUS to prevent user process from potentially
  accessing the page again. But in doing so, the user process also lose
  important information: vaddr, for recovery.  Fortunately, the kernel
  already has code to kill process re-accessing a hwpoisoned page, so
  remove the '!unmap_success' check.
- Right now, if a thp page under GUP longterm pin is hwpoisoned, and
  kernel cannot split the thp page, memory-failure simply ignores
  the UE and returns.  That's not ideal, it could deliver a SIGBUS with
  useful information for userspace recovery.


Jane Chu (5):
  mm/memory-failure: try to send SIGBUS even if unmap failed
  mm/madvise: Add MF_ACTION_REQUIRED to madvise(MADV_HWPOISON)
  mm/memory-failure: improve memory failure action_result messages
  mm/memory-failure: move hwpoison_filter() higher up
  mm/memory-failure: send SIGBUS in the event of thp split fail

 include/linux/mm.h      |   2 +
 include/ras/ras_event.h |   2 +
 mm/madvise.c            |   2 +-
 mm/memory-failure.c     | 108 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 4 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

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