The patch titled Subject: mm, hwpoison: make __page_handle_poison returns int has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-hwpoison-make-__page_handle_poison-returns-int.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-hwpoison-make-__page_handle_poison-returns-int.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm 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 via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx> Subject: mm, hwpoison: make __page_handle_poison returns int Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2022 14:06:29 +0900 __page_handle_poison() returns bool that shows whether take_page_off_buddy() has passed or not now. But we will want to distinguish another case of "dissolve has passed but taking off failed" by its return value. So change the type of the return value. No functional change. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220602050631.771414-4-naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory-failure.c | 17 +++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/mm/memory-failure.c~mm-hwpoison-make-__page_handle_poison-returns-int +++ a/mm/memory-failure.c @@ -69,7 +69,13 @@ int sysctl_memory_failure_recovery __rea atomic_long_t num_poisoned_pages __read_mostly = ATOMIC_LONG_INIT(0); -static bool __page_handle_poison(struct page *page) +/* + * Return values: + * 1: the page is dissolved (if needed) and taken off from buddy, + * 0: the page is dissolved (if needed) and not taken off from buddy, + * < 0: failed to dissolve. + */ +static int __page_handle_poison(struct page *page) { int ret; @@ -79,7 +85,7 @@ static bool __page_handle_poison(struct ret = take_page_off_buddy(page); zone_pcp_enable(page_zone(page)); - return ret > 0; + return ret; } static bool page_handle_poison(struct page *page, bool hugepage_or_freepage, bool release) @@ -89,7 +95,7 @@ static bool page_handle_poison(struct pa * Doing this check for free pages is also fine since dissolve_free_huge_page * returns 0 for non-hugetlb pages as well. */ - if (!__page_handle_poison(page)) + if (__page_handle_poison(page) <= 0) /* * We could fail to take off the target page from buddy * for example due to racy page allocation, but that's @@ -1046,7 +1052,7 @@ static int me_huge_page(struct page_stat * subpages. */ put_page(hpage); - if (__page_handle_poison(p)) { + if (__page_handle_poison(p) > 0) { page_ref_inc(p); res = MF_RECOVERED; } @@ -1596,8 +1602,7 @@ retry: */ if (res == 0) { unlock_page(head); - res = MF_FAILED; - if (__page_handle_poison(p)) { + if (__page_handle_poison(p) > 0) { page_ref_inc(p); res = MF_RECOVERED; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx are mm-hwpoison-hugetlb-introduce-subpage_index_hwpoison-to-save-raw-error-page.patch mmhwpoison-set-pg_hwpoison-for-busy-hugetlb-pages.patch mm-hwpoison-make-__page_handle_poison-returns-int.patch mm-hwpoison-skip-raw-hwpoison-page-in-freeing-1gb-hugepage.patch mm-hwpoison-enable-memory-error-handling-on-1gb-hugepage.patch