On 2022/8/5 01:39, Yang Shi wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 7:52 PM Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> If there is private data attached to THP, the refcount of
>> THP will be increased and block the THP split. Which could
>> further cause the meomry failure not recovered.
>>
>> Release private data attached to THP before split it to
>> increase the chance of splitting THP successfully.
>>
>> The issue was hit during HW error injection testing with
>> 5.18 kernel + xfs as rootfs, test got killed and system
>> reboot was required to re-run the test.
>>
>> The issue was tracked down to THP split failure caused the
>> memory failure not being handled. The page dump showed:
>>
>> [ 1785.433075] page:0000000025f9530b refcount:18 mapcount:0 mapping:000000008162eea7 index:0xa10 pfn:0x2f0200
>> [ 1785.443954] head:0000000025f9530b order:4 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
>> [ 1785.452408] memcg:ff4247f2d28e9000
>> [ 1785.456304] aops:xfs_address_space_operations ino:8555182 dentry name:"baseos-filenames.solvx"
>> [ 1785.466612] flags: 0x1000000000012036(referenced|uptodate|lru|active|private|head|node=0|zone=2)
>> [ 1785.476514] raw: 1000000000012036 ffb9460f8bc07c08 ffb9460f8bc08408 ff4247f22e6299f8
>> [ 1785.485268] raw: 0000000000000a10 ff4247f194ade900 00000012ffffffff ff4247f2d28e9000
>>
>> It was like the error was injected to a large folio for xfs with
>> private data attached.
>>
>> With private data released before split THP, the test case
>> could be run successfully many times without reboot system.
>
> Yes, now we have more file large pages/THP than before. The patch
> itself looks good to me. But I'm wondering whether it is better to
> release buffer in split_huge_page() itself since other callsites may
> experience the same issue. Before only anonymous and shmem THP were
> supported so we don't have to worry about the extra pin from buffers,
> but it may be time to consider it now.
Agree. I will send new patch with the private data release moved to
split_huge_page_to_list() if no further comment.
Regards
Yin, Fengwei
>
>>
>> Co-developed-by: Qiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Qiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Reviewed-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Changelog from RFC:
>> - Use new folio API per Mathhew Wilcox's suggestion
>> - Add one line comment before re-get folio of page per
>> Miaohe's comment
>> - Remove RFC tag
>> - Add Co-developed-by of Qiuxu who did a lot of debugging
>> work to locate where the real issue is
>>
>> mm/memory-failure.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
>> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
>> index b864c2eff641..ef87741b0fea 100644
>> --- a/mm/memory-failure.c
>> +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
>> @@ -1484,16 +1484,24 @@ static int identify_page_state(unsigned long pfn, struct page *p,
>>
>> static int try_to_split_thp_page(struct page *page, const char *msg)
>> {
>> - lock_page(page);
>> + struct folio *folio = page_folio(page);
>> +
>> + folio_lock(folio);
>> + if (folio_test_private(folio))
>> + filemap_release_folio(folio, GFP_KERNEL);
>> +
>> if (unlikely(split_huge_page(page))) {
>> unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
>>
>> - unlock_page(page);
>> + folio_unlock(folio);
>> pr_info("%s: %#lx: thp split failed\n", msg, pfn);
>> - put_page(page);
>> + folio_put(folio);
>> return -EBUSY;
>> }
>> - unlock_page(page);
>> +
>> + /* If split_huge_page success, folio could be different */
>> + folio = page_folio(page);
>> + folio_unlock(folio);
>>
>> return 0;
>> }
>>
>> base-commit: f86d1fbbe7858884d6754534a0afbb74fc30bc26
>> --
>> 2.25.1
>>
>>
