linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 1/2] ARM: mm: support memory-failure

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Message-ID: <20250922021453.3939-1-xieyuanbin1@huawei.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 10:14:52 +0800
From: Xie Yuanbin <xieyuanbin1@...wei.com>
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Subject: [RFC PATCH 1/2] ARM: mm: support memory-failure

Memory failure provides the ability of soft offline pages,
which is very useful to handle the memory errors such as CE in ECC.

Although ARM does not have a user interface like
`/sys/devices/system/memory/soft_offline_page`, memory-failure still
provides some exported func that can be used by some module ko driver.

Memory-failure will use one page flag (PG_hwpoison). For historical
versions, this will cause the page flags to exceed the 32-bit limit
(when CONFIG_SPARSEMEM and CONFIG_HIGHMEM are both enabled),
and therefore it cannot be enabled.

The following commit:
commit 09022bc196d2 ("mm: remove PG_error")
removes a page flag, so memory-failure can now be launched on ARM now.

The core codes of memory-failure is architecture independent, in fact,
it has performed well in current testing. Perhaps it can also be enabled
on other 32-bit architectures(like x86, and it seems that it can already
be enabled on 32-bit parisc architecture), but I haven't tested it yet.

Signed-off-by: Xie Yuanbin <xieyuanbin1@...wei.com>
---
 arch/arm/Kconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 5527935fd15a..b38c194a5cc4 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -149,20 +149,21 @@ config ARM
 	select PCI_SYSCALL if PCI
 	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
 	select RTC_LIB
 	select SPARSE_IRQ if !(ARCH_FOOTBRIDGE || ARCH_RPC)
 	select SYS_SUPPORTS_APM_EMULATION
 	select THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
 	select TIMER_OF if OF
 	select HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK if MMU && ARM_HAS_GROUP_RELOCS
 	select TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT if !CPU_V7M
 	select USE_OF if !(ARCH_FOOTBRIDGE || ARCH_RPC || ARCH_SA1100)
+	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
 	# Above selects are sorted alphabetically; please add new ones
 	# according to that.  Thanks.
 	help
 	  The ARM series is a line of low-power-consumption RISC chip designs
 	  licensed by ARM Ltd and targeted at embedded applications and
 	  handhelds such as the Compaq IPAQ.  ARM-based PCs are no longer
 	  manufactured, but legacy ARM-based PC hardware remains popular in
 	  Europe.  There is an ARM Linux project with a web page at
 	  <http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/>.

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