Correctable memory errors are very common on servers with large
amount of memory, and are corrected by ECC. Soft offline is kernel's
additional recovery handling for memory pages having (excessive)
corrected memory errors. Impacted page is migrated to a healthy page
if inuse; the original page is discarded for any future use.
The actual policy on whether (and when) to soft offline should be
maintained by userspace, especially in case of an 1G HugeTLB page.
Soft-offline dissolves the HugeTLB page, either in-use or free, into
chunks of 4K pages, reducing HugeTLB pool capacity by 1 hugepage.
If userspace has not acknowledged such behavior, it may be surprised
when later mmap hugepages MAP_FAILED due to lack of hugepages.
In case of a transparent hugepage, it will be split into 4K pages
as well; userspace will stop enjoying the transparent performance.
In addition, discarding the entire 1G HugeTLB page only because of
corrected memory errors sounds very costly and kernel better not
doing under the hood. But today there are at least 2 such cases:
1. GHES driver sees both GHES_SEV_CORRECTED and
CPER_SEC_ERROR_THRESHOLD_EXCEEDED after parsing CPER.
2. RAS Correctable Errors Collector counts correctable errors per
PFN and when the counter for a PFN reaches threshold
In both cases, userspace has no control of the soft offline performed
by kernel's memory failure recovery.
This commit gives userspace the control of softofflining any page:
kernel only soft offlines raw page / transparent hugepage / HugeTLB
hugepage if userspace has agreed to. The interface to userspace is a
new sysctl called enable_soft_offline under /proc/sys/vm. By default
enable_soft_line is 1 to preserve existing behavior in kernel.
Signed-off-by: Jiaqi Yan <jiaqiyan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory-failure.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index d3c830e817e3..23415fe03318 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ static int sysctl_memory_failure_early_kill __read_mostly;
static int sysctl_memory_failure_recovery __read_mostly = 1;
+static int sysctl_enable_soft_offline __read_mostly = 1;
+
atomic_long_t num_poisoned_pages __read_mostly = ATOMIC_LONG_INIT(0);
static bool hw_memory_failure __read_mostly = false;
@@ -141,6 +143,15 @@ static struct ctl_table memory_failure_table[] = {
.extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO,
.extra2 = SYSCTL_ONE,
},
+ {
+ .procname = "enable_soft_offline",
+ .data = &sysctl_enable_soft_offline,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_enable_soft_offline),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax,
+ .extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO,
+ .extra2 = SYSCTL_ONE,
+ }
};
/*
@@ -2771,6 +2782,11 @@ int soft_offline_page(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
bool try_again = true;
struct page *page;
+ if (!sysctl_enable_soft_offline) {
+ pr_info("soft offline: %#lx: OS-wide disabled\n", pfn);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
if (!pfn_valid(pfn)) {
WARN_ON_ONCE(flags & MF_COUNT_INCREASED);
return -ENXIO;
--
2.45.2.505.gda0bf45e8d-goog
