Re: [PATCH] mm/memory-failure: allow memory allocation from emergency reserves

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On 2024/7/5 7:26, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 16:04:02 +0800 Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>>> Tasks might not be killed even to_kill struct is allocated.
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>> -	raw_hwp = kmalloc(sizeof(struct raw_hwp_page), GFP_ATOMIC);
>>>>> +	raw_hwp = kmalloc(sizeof(struct raw_hwp_page), GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_MEMALLOC);
>>>>
>>>> In already hardware poisoned code path, raw_hwp can be allocated to store raw page info
>>>> without killing anything. So __GFP_MEMALLOC might not be suitable to use.
>>>> Or am I miss something?
>>>
>>> Yes, I'm doubtful about this patch.  I think that rather than poking at a
>>> particular implementation, it would be helpful for us to see a complete
>>> description of the issues which were observed, please.  Let's see the
>>> bug report and we can discuss fixes later.
>>
>> I agree with you, Andrew. Thanks. :)
> 
> I dropped the patch.  Please let's proceed as discussed above.
> .

Sure. Thanks.
.




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