The patch titled Subject: mm,madvise: call soft_offline_page() without MF_COUNT_INCREASED has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mmmadvise-call-soft_offline_page-without-mf_count_increased.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mmmadvise-call-soft_offline_page-without-mf_count_increased.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mmmadvise-call-soft_offline_page-without-mf_count_increased.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx> Subject: mm,madvise: call soft_offline_page() without MF_COUNT_INCREASED The call to get_user_pages_fast is only to get the pointer to a struct page of a given address, pinning it is memory-poisoning handler's job, so drop the refcount grabbed by get_user_pages_fast(). Note that the target page is still pinned after this put_page() because the current process should have refcount from mapping. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200731122112.11263-4-nao.horiguchi@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dmitry Yakunin <zeil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/madvise.c | 24 ++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) --- a/mm/madvise.c~mmmadvise-call-soft_offline_page-without-mf_count_increased +++ a/mm/madvise.c @@ -893,16 +893,24 @@ static int madvise_inject_error(int beha */ size = page_size(compound_head(page)); - if (PageHWPoison(page)) { - put_page(page); + /* + * The get_user_pages_fast() is just to get the pfn of the + * given address, and the refcount has nothing to do with + * what we try to test, so it should be released immediately. + * This is racy but it's intended because the real hardware + * errors could happen at any moment and memory error handlers + * must properly handle the race. + */ + put_page(page); + + if (PageHWPoison(page)) continue; - } if (behavior == MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE) { pr_info("Soft offlining pfn %#lx at process virtual address %#lx\n", pfn, start); - ret = soft_offline_page(pfn, MF_COUNT_INCREASED); + ret = soft_offline_page(pfn, 0); if (ret) return ret; continue; @@ -910,14 +918,6 @@ static int madvise_inject_error(int beha pr_info("Injecting memory failure for pfn %#lx at process virtual address %#lx\n", pfn, start); - - /* - * Drop the page reference taken by get_user_pages_fast(). In - * the absence of MF_COUNT_INCREASED the memory_failure() - * routine is responsible for pinning the page to prevent it - * from being released back to the page allocator. - */ - put_page(page); ret = memory_failure(pfn, 0); if (ret) return ret; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx are mmhwpoison-cleanup-unused-pagehuge-check.patch mm-hwpoison-remove-recalculating-hpage.patch mmmadvise-call-soft_offline_page-without-mf_count_increased.patch mmhwpoison-inject-dont-pin-for-hwpoison_filter.patch mmhwpoison-remove-mf_count_increased.patch mmhwpoison-remove-flag-argument-from-soft-offline-functions.patch mmhwpoison-introduce-mf_msg_unsplit_thp.patch mmhwpoison-double-check-page-count-in-__get_any_page.patch