Hi Naoya or Greg, We found a bug in 3.10.x. The problem is that we accidentally have a hwpoisoned hugepage in free hugepage list. It could happend in the the following scenario: process A process B migrate_huge_page put_page (old hugepage) linked to free hugepage list hugetlb_fault hugetlb_no_page alloc_huge_page dequeue_huge_page_vma dequeue_huge_page_node (steal hwpoisoned hugepage) set_page_hwpoison_huge_page dequeue_hwpoisoned_huge_page (fail to dequeue) I tested this bug, one process keeps allocating huge page, and I use sysfs interface to soft offline a huge page, then received: "MCE: Killing UCP:2717 due to hardware memory corruption fault at 8200034" Upstream kernel is free from this bug because of these two commits: f15bdfa802bfa5eb6b4b5a241b97ec9fa1204a35 mm/memory-failure.c: fix memory leak in successful soft offlining c8721bbbdd36382de51cd6b7a56322e0acca2414 mm: memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle hugepage The first one, although the problem is about memory leak, this patch moves unset_migratetype_isolate(), which is important to avoid the race. The latter is not a bug fix and it's too big, so I rewrite a small one. The following patch can fix this bug.(please apply f15bdfa802bf first) Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/hugetlb.c | 11 +++++++++-- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index 7c5eb85..6cb5b3b 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ #include <linux/rmap.h> #include <linux/swap.h> #include <linux/swapops.h> +#include <linux/page-isolation.h> #include <asm/page.h> #include <asm/pgtable.h> @@ -517,9 +518,15 @@ static struct page *dequeue_huge_page_node(struct hstate *h, int nid) { struct page *page; - if (list_empty(&h->hugepage_freelists[nid])) + list_for_each_entry(page, &h->hugepage_freelists[nid], lru) + if (!is_migrate_isolate_page(page)) + break; + /* + * if 'non-isolated free hugepage' not found on the list, + * the allocation fails. + */ + if (&h->hugepage_freelists[nid] == &page->lru) return NULL; - page = list_entry(h->hugepage_freelists[nid].next, struct page, lru); list_move(&page->lru, &h->hugepage_activelist); set_page_refcounted(page); h->free_huge_pages--; -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>