On 2024/5/2 7:24, Jane Chu wrote:
> The soft hwpoison injector via madvise(MADV_HWPOISON) operates in
> a synchrous way in a sense, the injector is also a process under
> test, and should it have the poisoned page mapped in its address
> space, it should legitimately get killed as much as in a real UE
> situation.
Will it be better to add a method to set MF_ACTION_REQUIRED explicitly when inject soft hwpoison?
Thanks.
.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/madvise.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
> index 1a073fcc4c0c..eaeae5252c02 100644
> --- a/mm/madvise.c
> +++ b/mm/madvise.c
> @@ -1127,7 +1127,7 @@ static int madvise_inject_error(int behavior,
> } else {
> pr_info("Injecting memory failure for pfn %#lx at process virtual address %#lx\n",
> pfn, start);
> - ret = memory_failure(pfn, MF_COUNT_INCREASED | MF_SW_SIMULATED);
> + ret = memory_failure(pfn, MF_ACTION_REQUIRED | MF_COUNT_INCREASED | MF_SW_SIMULATED);
> if (ret == -EOPNOTSUPP)
> ret = 0;
> }
>
