The crux of the matter is that historically we left poisoned pages in the buddy system because we have some checks in place when allocating a page that a gatekeeper for poisoned pages. Unfortunately, we do have other users (e.g: compaction [1]) that scan buddy freelists and try to get a page from there without checking whether the page is HWPoison. As I stated already, I think it is fundamentally wrong to keep HWPoison pages within the buddy systems, checks in place or not. Let us fix this we same way we did for soft_offline [2], and take the page off the buddy freelist, so it is completely unreachable. Note that this is fairly simple to trigger, as we only need to poison free buddy pages (madvise MADV_HWPOISON) and then we need to run some sort of memory stress system. Just for a matter of reference, I put a dump_page in compaction_alloc to trigger for HWPoison patches: kernel: page:0000000012b2982b refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x1 pfn:0x1d5db kernel: flags: 0xfffffc0800000(hwpoison) kernel: raw: 000fffffc0800000 ffffea00007573c8 ffffc90000857de0 0000000000000000 kernel: raw: 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 kernel: page dumped because: compaction_alloc kernel: CPU: 4 PID: 123 Comm: kcompactd0 Tainted: G E 5.9.0-rc2-mm1-1-default+ #5 kernel: Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.10.2-0-g5f4c7b1-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014 kernel: Call Trace: kernel: dump_stack+0x6d/0x8b kernel: compaction_alloc+0xb2/0xc0 kernel: migrate_pages+0x2a6/0x12a0 kernel: ? isolate_freepages+0xc80/0xc80 kernel: ? __ClearPageMovable+0xb0/0xb0 kernel: compact_zone+0x5eb/0x11c0 kernel: ? finish_task_switch+0x74/0x300 kernel: ? lock_timer_base+0xa8/0x170 kernel: proactive_compact_node+0x89/0xf0 kernel: ? kcompactd+0x2d0/0x3a0 kernel: kcompactd+0x2d0/0x3a0 kernel: ? finish_wait+0x80/0x80 kernel: ? kcompactd_do_work+0x350/0x350 kernel: kthread+0x118/0x130 kernel: ? kthread_associate_blkcg+0xa0/0xa0 kernel: ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 After that, if e.g: someone faults in the page, that someone will get killed unexpectedly. While we are at it, I also changed the action result for such cases. I think that MF_DELAYED is a bit misleading, because in case we could contain the page and take it off the buddy, such a page is not to be used again unless it is unpoisoned, so we fixed the situation. So unless I am missing something, I strongly think that we should report MF_RECOVERED. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190826104144.GA7849@linux/T/#u [2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11694847/ Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx> --- mm/memory-failure.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c index 4eb3c42ffe35..74a53881f94b 100644 --- a/mm/memory-failure.c +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c @@ -1323,8 +1323,9 @@ int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int flags) struct page *hpage; struct page *orig_head; struct dev_pagemap *pgmap; - int res; unsigned long page_flags; + int res = 0; + bool retry = true; if (!sysctl_memory_failure_recovery) panic("Memory failure on page %lx", pfn); @@ -1364,10 +1365,21 @@ int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int flags) * In fact it's dangerous to directly bump up page count from 0, * that may make page_ref_freeze()/page_ref_unfreeze() mismatch. */ +try_again: if (!(flags & MF_COUNT_INCREASED) && !get_hwpoison_page(p)) { if (is_free_buddy_page(p)) { - action_result(pfn, MF_MSG_BUDDY, MF_DELAYED); - return 0; + if (take_page_off_buddy(p)) { + action_result(pfn, MF_MSG_BUDDY, MF_RECOVERED); + return 0; + } else { + /* We lost the race, try again */ + if (retry) { + retry = false; + goto try_again; + } + action_result(pfn, MF_MSG_BUDDY, MF_FAILED); + return -EBUSY; + } } else { action_result(pfn, MF_MSG_KERNEL_HIGH_ORDER, MF_IGNORED); return -EBUSY; @@ -1393,11 +1405,15 @@ int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int flags) shake_page(p, 0); /* shake_page could have turned it free. */ if (!PageLRU(p) && is_free_buddy_page(p)) { + if (!take_page_off_buddy(p)) + res = -EBUSY; + if (flags & MF_COUNT_INCREASED) - action_result(pfn, MF_MSG_BUDDY, MF_DELAYED); + action_result(pfn, MF_MSG_BUDDY, res ? MF_FAILED : MF_RECOVERED); else - action_result(pfn, MF_MSG_BUDDY_2ND, MF_DELAYED); - return 0; + action_result(pfn, MF_MSG_BUDDY_2ND, res ? MF_FAILED : MF_RECOVERED); + + return res; } lock_page(p); -- 2.26.2
