Currently memory error handler handles action optional errors in the deferred
manner by default. And if a recovery aware application wants to handle it
immediately, it can do it by setting PF_MCE_EARLY flag. However, such signal
can be sent only to the main thread, so it's problematic if the application
wants to have a dedicated thread to handler such signals.
So this patch adds dedicated thread support to memory error handler. We have
PF_MCE_EARLY flags for each thread separately, so with this patch AO signal
is sent to the thread with PF_MCE_EARLY flag set, not the main thread. If
you want to implement a dedicated thread, you call prctl() to set PF_MCE_EARLY
on the thread.
Memory error handler collects processes to be killed, so this patch lets it
check PF_MCE_EARLY flag on each thread in the collecting routines.
No behavioral change for all non-early kill cases.
ChangeLog:
- document more specifically
- add parenthesis in find_early_kill_thread()
- move position of find_early_kill_thread() and task_early_kill()
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kamil Iskra <iskra@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Chen Gong <gong.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt | 5 ++++
mm/memory-failure.c | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git mmotm-2014-05-21-16-57.orig/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt mmotm-2014-05-21-16-57/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt
index 550068466605..6ae89a9edf2a 100644
--- mmotm-2014-05-21-16-57.orig/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt
+++ mmotm-2014-05-21-16-57/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt
@@ -84,6 +84,11 @@ PR_MCE_KILL
PR_MCE_KILL_EARLY: Early kill
PR_MCE_KILL_LATE: Late kill
PR_MCE_KILL_DEFAULT: Use system global default
+ Note that if you want to have a dedicated thread which handles
+ the SIGBUS(BUS_MCEERR_AO) on behalf of the process, you should
+ call prctl(PR_MCE_KILL_EARLY) on the designated thread. Otherwise,
+ the SIGBUS is sent to the main thread.
+
PR_MCE_KILL_GET
return current mode
diff --git mmotm-2014-05-21-16-57.orig/mm/memory-failure.c mmotm-2014-05-21-16-57/mm/memory-failure.c
index fbcdb1d54c55..9751e19ab13b 100644
--- mmotm-2014-05-21-16-57.orig/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ mmotm-2014-05-21-16-57/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -380,15 +380,44 @@ static void kill_procs(struct list_head *to_kill, int forcekill, int trapno,
}
}
-static int task_early_kill(struct task_struct *tsk, int force_early)
+/*
+ * Find a dedicated thread which is supposed to handle SIGBUS(BUS_MCEERR_AO)
+ * on behalf of the thread group. Return task_struct of the (first found)
+ * dedicated thread if found, and return NULL otherwise.
+ */
+static struct task_struct *find_early_kill_thread(struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+ struct task_struct *t;
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ for_each_thread(tsk, t)
+ if ((t->flags & PF_MCE_PROCESS) && (t->flags & PF_MCE_EARLY))
+ goto found;
+ t = NULL;
+found:
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ return t;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Determine whether a given process is "early kill" process which expects
+ * to be signaled when some page under the process is hwpoisoned.
+ * Return task_struct of the dedicated thread (main thread unless explicitly
+ * specified) if the process is "early kill," and otherwise returns NULL.
+ */
+static struct task_struct *task_early_kill(struct task_struct *tsk,
+ int force_early)
{
+ struct task_struct *t;
if (!tsk->mm)
- return 0;
+ return NULL;
if (force_early)
- return 1;
- if (tsk->flags & PF_MCE_PROCESS)
- return !!(tsk->flags & PF_MCE_EARLY);
- return sysctl_memory_failure_early_kill;
+ return tsk;
+ t = find_early_kill_thread(tsk);
+ if (t)
+ return t;
+ if (sysctl_memory_failure_early_kill)
+ return tsk;
+ return NULL;
}
/*
@@ -410,16 +439,16 @@ static void collect_procs_anon(struct page *page, struct list_head *to_kill,
read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
for_each_process (tsk) {
struct anon_vma_chain *vmac;
-
- if (!task_early_kill(tsk, force_early))
+ struct task_struct *t = task_early_kill(tsk, force_early);
+ if (!t)
continue;
anon_vma_interval_tree_foreach(vmac, &av->rb_root,
pgoff, pgoff) {
vma = vmac->vma;
if (!page_mapped_in_vma(page, vma))
continue;
- if (vma->vm_mm == tsk->mm)
- add_to_kill(tsk, page, vma, to_kill, tkc);
+ if (vma->vm_mm == t->mm)
+ add_to_kill(t, page, vma, to_kill, tkc);
}
}
read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
@@ -440,10 +469,9 @@ static void collect_procs_file(struct page *page, struct list_head *to_kill,
read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
for_each_process(tsk) {
pgoff_t pgoff = page_pgoff(page);
-
- if (!task_early_kill(tsk, force_early))
+ struct task_struct *t = task_early_kill(tsk, force_early);
+ if (!t)
continue;
-
vma_interval_tree_foreach(vma, &mapping->i_mmap, pgoff,
pgoff) {
/*
@@ -453,8 +481,8 @@ static void collect_procs_file(struct page *page, struct list_head *to_kill,
* Assume applications who requested early kill want
* to be informed of all such data corruptions.
*/
- if (vma->vm_mm == tsk->mm)
- add_to_kill(tsk, page, vma, to_kill, tkc);
+ if (vma->vm_mm == t->mm)
+ add_to_kill(t, page, vma, to_kill, tkc);
}
}
read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
--
1.9.3
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