Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm/memory-failure: send SIGBUS in the event of thp split fail

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On 2024/5/9 23:34, Jane Chu wrote:
> 
> On 5/9/2024 1:30 AM, Miaohe Lin wrote:
>> On 2024/5/9 1:45, Jane Chu wrote:
>>> On 5/8/2024 1:08 AM, Miaohe Lin wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2024/5/7 4:26, Jane Chu wrote:
>>>>> On 5/5/2024 12:00 AM, Miaohe Lin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2024/5/2 7:24, Jane Chu wrote:
>>>>>>> When handle hwpoison in a GUP longterm pin'ed thp page,
>>>>>>> try_to_split_thp_page() will fail. And at this point, there is little else
>>>>>>> the kernel could do except sending a SIGBUS to the user process, thus
>>>>>>> give it a chance to recover.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> Thanks for your patch. Some comments below.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>     mm/memory-failure.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>>     1 file changed, 36 insertions(+)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
>>>>>>> index 7fcf182abb96..67f4d24a98e7 100644
>>>>>>> --- a/mm/memory-failure.c
>>>>>>> +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
>>>>>>> @@ -2168,6 +2168,37 @@ static int memory_failure_dev_pagemap(unsigned long pfn, int flags,
>>>>>>>         return rc;
>>>>>>>     }
>>>>>>>     +/*
>>>>>>> + * The calling condition is as such: thp split failed, page might have
>>>>>>> + * been GUP longterm pinned, not much can be done for recovery.
>>>>>>> + * But a SIGBUS should be delivered with vaddr provided so that the user
>>>>>>> + * application has a chance to recover. Also, application processes'
>>>>>>> + * election for MCE early killed will be honored.
>>>>>>> + */
>>>>>>> +static int kill_procs_now(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn, int flags,
>>>>>>> +            struct page *hpage)
>>>>>>> +{
>>>>>>> +    struct folio *folio = page_folio(hpage);
>>>>>>> +    LIST_HEAD(tokill);
>>>>>>> +    int res = -EHWPOISON;
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> +    /* deal with user pages only */
>>>>>>> +    if (PageReserved(p) || PageSlab(p) || PageTable(p) || PageOffline(p))
>>>>>>> +        res = -EBUSY;
>>>>>>> +    if (!(PageLRU(hpage) || PageHuge(p)))
>>>>>>> +        res = -EBUSY;
>>>>>> Above checks seems unneeded. We already know it's thp?
>>>>> Agreed.
>>>>>
>>>>> I  lifted these checks from hwpoison_user_mapping() with a hope to make kill_procs_now() more generic,
>>>>>
>>>>> such as, potentially replacing kill_accessing_processes() for re-accessing hwpoisoned page.
>>>>>
>>>>> But I backed out at last, due to concerns that my tests might not have covered sufficient number of scenarios.
>>>>>
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> +    if (res == -EHWPOISON) {
>>>>>>> +        collect_procs(folio, p, &tokill, flags & MF_ACTION_REQUIRED);
>>>>>>> +        kill_procs(&tokill, true, pfn, flags);
>>>>>>> +    }
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> +    if (flags & MF_COUNT_INCREASED)
>>>>>>> +        put_page(p);
>>>>>> This if block is broken. put_page() has been done when try_to_split_thp_page() fails?
>>>>> put_page() has not been done if try_to_split_thp_page() fails, and I think it should.
>>>> In try_to_split_thp_page(), if split_huge_page fails, i.e. ret != 0, put_page() is called. See below:
>>>>
>>>> static int try_to_split_thp_page(struct page *page)
>>>> {
>>>>      int ret;
>>>>
>>>>      lock_page(page);
>>>>      ret = split_huge_page(page);
>>>>      unlock_page(page);
>>>>
>>>>      if (unlikely(ret))
>>>>          put_page(page);
>>>>      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>>      return ret;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> Or am I miss something?
>>> I think you caught a bug in my code, thanks!
>>>
>>> How about moving put_page() outside try_to_split_thp_page() ?
>> If you want to send SIGBUS in the event of thp split fail, it might be required to do so.
>> I think kill_procs_now() needs extra thp refcnt to do its work.
> 
> Agreed.  I added an boolean to try_to_split_thp_page(),the boolean indicates whether to put_page().

IMHO, it might be too complicated to add an extra boolean to indicate whether to put_page(). It might be
more straightforward to always put_page outside try_to_split_thp_page?
Thanks.
.





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