On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 11:50 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. Release
> private data attached to THP before split it to increase
> the chance of splitting THP successfully.
>
> There was a memory failure issue 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.
>
> 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>
> ---
> Changelog from v2:
> - Use safe gfp flags for different callsite of split_huge_page_to_list
> per Yang's comment.
> - Remove reviewed-by tag from Aaron which was only valid for RFC patch
> but keep it by mistake.
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Changelog from v1:
> - Move private release to split_huge_page_to_list
> to cover wider path per Yang's comment.
> - Update to commit message.
>
> 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/huge_memory.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> index 8a7c1b344abe..ae8c4e209e58 100644
> --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> @@ -2627,6 +2627,8 @@ int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page *page, struct list_head *list)
> mapping = NULL;
> anon_vma_lock_write(anon_vma);
> } else {
> + gfp_t gfp;
> +
> mapping = head->mapping;
>
> /* Truncated ? */
> @@ -2635,8 +2637,16 @@ int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page *page, struct list_head *list)
> goto out;
> }
>
> - xas_split_alloc(&xas, head, compound_order(head),
> - mapping_gfp_mask(mapping) & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK);
> + gfp = current_gfp_context(mapping_gfp_mask(mapping) &
> + GFP_RECLAIM_MASK);
> +
> + if (folio_test_private(folio) &&
> + !filemap_release_folio(folio, gfp)) {
> + ret = -EBUSY;
> + goto out;
> + }
> +
> + xas_split_alloc(&xas, head, compound_order(head), gfp);
> if (xas_error(&xas)) {
> ret = xas_error(&xas);
> goto out;
>
> base-commit: d4252071b97d2027d246f6a82cbee4d52f618b47
> --
> 2.25.1
>
