The patch titled Subject: mm/madvise: add MF_ACTION_REQUIRED to madvise(MADV_HWPOISON) has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-madvise-add-mf_action_required-to-madvisemadv_hwpoison.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-madvise-add-mf_action_required-to-madvisemadv_hwpoison.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: Jane Chu <jane.chu@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/madvise: add MF_ACTION_REQUIRED to madvise(MADV_HWPOISON) Date: Fri, 24 May 2024 15:53:03 -0600 The soft hwpoison injector via madvise(MADV_HWPOISON) operates in a synchrous way in a sense, the injector is also a process under test, and should it have the poisoned page mapped in its address space, it should get killed as much as in a real UE situation. Doing so align with what the madvise(2) man page says: " "This operation may result in the calling process receiving a SIGBUS and the page being unmapped." Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240524215306.2705454-3-jane.chu@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <oalvador@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/madvise.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/madvise.c~mm-madvise-add-mf_action_required-to-madvisemadv_hwpoison +++ a/mm/madvise.c @@ -1147,7 +1147,7 @@ static int madvise_inject_error(int beha } else { pr_info("Injecting memory failure for pfn %#lx at process virtual address %#lx\n", pfn, start); - ret = memory_failure(pfn, MF_COUNT_INCREASED | MF_SW_SIMULATED); + ret = memory_failure(pfn, MF_ACTION_REQUIRED | MF_COUNT_INCREASED | MF_SW_SIMULATED); if (ret == -EOPNOTSUPP) ret = 0; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jane.chu@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-memory-failure-try-to-send-sigbus-even-if-unmap-failed.patch mm-madvise-add-mf_action_required-to-madvisemadv_hwpoison.patch mm-memory-failure-improve-memory-failure-action_result-messages.patch mm-memory-failure-move-hwpoison_filter-higher-up.patch mm-memory-failure-send-sigbus-in-the-event-of-thp-split-fail.patch