Until now, the kernel has the same policy to handle victimized page frames that belong to kernel-space(reserved/slab-subsystem) or non-LRU(unknown page state). In other word, the result of handling either of these victimized page frames is (IGNORED | FAILED), and the return value of memory_failure() is -EBUSY. This patch is to avoid that memory_failure() returns very soon due to the "true" value of (!PageLRU(p)), and it also ensures that action_result() can report more precise information("reserved kernel", "kernel slab", and "unknown page state") instead of "non LRU", especially for memory errors which are detected by memory-scrubbing. Changes since v1: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg74044.html - Call goto just after if (hwpoison_filter(p)) block, and jump directly to just before the code determining the page_state, as suggested by Naoya Horiguchi. Signed-off-by: Chen Yucong <slaoub@xxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory-failure.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c index e3154d9..1340b30 100644 --- a/mm/memory-failure.c +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c @@ -862,7 +862,7 @@ static int hwpoison_user_mappings(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn, struct page *hpage = *hpagep; struct page *ppage; - if (PageReserved(p) || PageSlab(p)) + if (PageReserved(p) || PageSlab(p) || !PageLRU(p)) return SWAP_SUCCESS; /* @@ -1126,9 +1126,6 @@ int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int trapno, int flags) action_result(pfn, "free buddy, 2nd try", DELAYED); return 0; } - action_result(pfn, "non LRU", IGNORED); - put_page(p); - return -EBUSY; } } @@ -1161,6 +1158,9 @@ int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int trapno, int flags) return 0; } + if (!PageHuge(p) && !PageTransTail(p) && !PageLRU(p)) + goto identify_page_state; + /* * For error on the tail page, we should set PG_hwpoison * on the head page to show that the hugepage is hwpoisoned @@ -1210,6 +1210,7 @@ int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int trapno, int flags) goto out; } +identify_page_state: res = -EBUSY; /* * The first check uses the current page flags which may not have any -- 1.7.10.4 -- 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>