On 2024/2/26 18:46, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 04, 2024 at 04:01:43PM +0800, Shuai Xue wrote:
>> Part of return value comments for memory_failure() were originally
>> documented at the call site. Move those comments to the function
>> declaration to improve code readability and to provide developers with
>> immediate access to function usage and return information.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c | 9 +--------
>> mm/memory-failure.c | 9 ++++++---
>> 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c
>> index bc39252bc54f..822b21eb48ad 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c
>> @@ -1365,17 +1365,10 @@ static void kill_me_maybe(struct callback_head *cb)
>> return;
>> }
>>
>> - /*
>> - * -EHWPOISON from memory_failure() means that it already sent SIGBUS
>> - * to the current process with the proper error info,
>> - * -EOPNOTSUPP means hwpoison_filter() filtered the error event,
>> - *
>> - * In both cases, no further processing is required.
>> - */
>> if (ret == -EHWPOISON || ret == -EOPNOTSUPP)
>> return;
>>
>> - pr_err("Memory error not recovered");
>> + pr_err("Sending SIGBUS to current task due to memory error not recovered");
>
> Unrelated change.
Yes, I will drop the error message change.
>
>> kill_me_now(cb);
>> }
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
>> index 636280d04008..d33729c48eff 100644
>> --- a/mm/memory-failure.c
>> +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
>> @@ -2175,9 +2175,12 @@ static int memory_failure_dev_pagemap(unsigned long pfn, int flags,
>> * Must run in process context (e.g. a work queue) with interrupts
>> * enabled and no spinlocks held.
>> *
>> - * Return: 0 for successfully handled the memory error,
>> - * -EOPNOTSUPP for hwpoison_filter() filtered the error event,
>> - * < 0(except -EOPNOTSUPP) on failure.
>> + * Return values:
>> + * 0 - success
>> + * -EOPNOTSUPP - hwpoison_filter() filtered the error event.
>> + * -EHWPOISON - sent SIGBUS to the current process with the proper
>> + * error info by kill_accessing_process().
>
> kill_accessing_process() is not the only one returning -EHWPOISON.
>
> And if you look at the code, it should be:
>
> -EHWPOISON - the page was already poisoned, potentially
> kill process
>
> or so.
>
You are right, will fix it in next version.
Thank you.
Best Regards.
Shuai
