On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 04:01:41PM -0600, Jane Chu wrote: > Mmap /dev/dax more than once, then read the poison location using address > from one of the mappings. The other mappings due to not having the page > mapped in will cause SIGKILLs delivered to the process. SIGKILL succeeds > over SIGBUS, so user process looses the opportunity to handle the UE. > > Although one may add MAP_POPULATE to mmap(2) to work around the issue, > MAP_POPULATE makes mapping 128GB of pmem several magnitudes slower, so > isn't always an option. > > Details - > > ndctl inject-error --block=10 --count=1 namespace6.0 > > ./read_poison -x dax6.0 -o 5120 -m 2 > mmaped address 0x7f5bb6600000 > mmaped address 0x7f3cf3600000 > doing local read at address 0x7f3cf3601400 > Killed > > Console messages in instrumented kernel - > > mce: Uncorrected hardware memory error in user-access at edbe201400 > Memory failure: tk->addr = 7f5bb6601000 > Memory failure: address edbe201: call dev_pagemap_mapping_shift > dev_pagemap_mapping_shift: page edbe201: no PUD > Memory failure: tk->size_shift == 0 > Memory failure: Unable to find user space address edbe201 in read_poison > Memory failure: tk->addr = 7f3cf3601000 > Memory failure: address edbe201: call dev_pagemap_mapping_shift > Memory failure: tk->size_shift = 21 > Memory failure: 0xedbe201: forcibly killing read_poison:22434 because of failure to unmap corrupted page > => to deliver SIGKILL > Memory failure: 0xedbe201: Killing read_poison:22434 due to hardware memory corruption > => to deliver SIGBUS > > Signed-off-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@xxxxxxxxxx> > Suggested-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Thanks for the fix. Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
