The patch titled
Subject: mm/memory-failure: remove obsolete comment in kill_proc()
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
mm-memory-failure-remove-obsolete-comment-in-kill_proc.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-memory-failure-remove-obsolete-comment-in-kill_proc.patch
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/memory-failure: remove obsolete comment in kill_proc()
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 15:18:34 +0800
When user sets SIGBUS to SIG_IGN, it won't cause loop now. For action
required mce error, SIGBUS cannot be blocked. Also when a hwpoisoned page
is re-accessed, kill_accessing_process() will be called to kill the
process.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240612071835.157004-13-linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory-failure.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c~mm-memory-failure-remove-obsolete-comment-in-kill_proc
+++ a/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -354,8 +354,6 @@ static int kill_proc(struct to_kill *tk,
* PF_MCE_EARLY set.
* Don't use force here, it's convenient if the signal
* can be temporarily blocked.
- * This could cause a loop when the user sets SIGBUS
- * to SIG_IGN, but hopefully no one will do that?
*/
ret = send_sig_mceerr(BUS_MCEERR_AO, (void __user *)tk->addr,
addr_lsb, t);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx are
mm-memory-failure-simplify-put_ref_page.patch
mm-memory-failure-remove-mf_msg_slab.patch
mm-memory-failure-add-macro-get_page_max_retry_num.patch
mm-memory-failure-save-some-page_folio-calls.patch
mm-memory-failure-remove-unneeded-empty-string.patch
mm-memory-failure-remove-confusing-initialization-to-count.patch
mm-memory-failure-dont-export-hwpoison_filter-when-config_hwpoison_inject.patch
mm-memory-failure-use-helper-macro-task_pid_nr.patch
mm-memory-failure-remove-obsolete-comment-in-unpoison_memory.patch
mm-memory-failure-move-some-function-declarations-into-internalh.patch
mm-memory-failure-fix-comment-of-get_hwpoison_page.patch
mm-memory-failure-remove-obsolete-comment-in-kill_proc.patch
mm-memory-failure-correct-comment-in-me_swapcache_dirty.patch
