This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Revert "mm/memory-failure.c: skip huge_zero_page in memory_failure()"
to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
revert-mm-memory-failure.c-skip-huge_zero_page-in-memory_failure.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From b4e61fc031b11dd807dffc46cebbf0e25966d3d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Xu Yu <xuyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 23:14:43 -0700
Subject: Revert "mm/memory-failure.c: skip huge_zero_page in memory_failure()"
From: Xu Yu <xuyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit b4e61fc031b11dd807dffc46cebbf0e25966d3d1 upstream.
Patch series "mm/memory-failure: rework fix on huge_zero_page splitting".
This patch (of 2):
This reverts commit d173d5417fb67411e623d394aab986d847e47dad.
The commit d173d5417fb6 ("mm/memory-failure.c: skip huge_zero_page in
memory_failure()") explicitly skips huge_zero_page in memory_failure(), in
order to avoid triggering VM_BUG_ON_PAGE on huge_zero_page in
split_huge_page_to_list().
This works, but Yang Shi thinks that,
Raising BUG is overkilling for splitting huge_zero_page. The
huge_zero_page can't be met from normal paths other than memory
failure, but memory failure is a valid caller. So I tend to replace
the BUG to WARN + returning -EBUSY. If we don't care about the
reason code in memory failure, we don't have to touch memory
failure.
And for the issue that huge_zero_page will be set PG_has_hwpoisoned,
Yang Shi comments that,
The anonymous page fault doesn't check if the page is poisoned or
not since it typically gets a fresh allocated page and assumes the
poisoned page (isolated successfully) can't be reallocated again.
But huge zero page and base zero page are reused every time. So no
matter what fix we pick, the issue is always there.
Finally, Yang, David, Anshuman and Naoya all agree to fix the bug, i.e.,
to split huge_zero_page, in split_huge_page_to_list().
This reverts the commit d173d5417fb6 ("mm/memory-failure.c: skip
huge_zero_page in memory_failure()"), and the original bug will be fixed
by the next patch.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/872cefb182ba1dd686b0e7db1e6b2ebe5a4fff87.1651039624.git.xuyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: d173d5417fb6 ("mm/memory-failure.c: skip huge_zero_page in memory_failure()")
Fixes: 6a46079cf57a ("HWPOISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM v7")
Signed-off-by: Xu Yu <xuyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory-failure.c | 13 -------------
1 file changed, 13 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -1692,19 +1692,6 @@ try_again:
if (PageTransHuge(hpage)) {
/*
- * Bail out before SetPageHasHWPoisoned() if hpage is
- * huge_zero_page, although PG_has_hwpoisoned is not
- * checked in set_huge_zero_page().
- *
- * TODO: Handle memory failure of huge_zero_page thoroughly.
- */
- if (is_huge_zero_page(hpage)) {
- action_result(pfn, MF_MSG_UNSPLIT_THP, MF_IGNORED);
- res = -EBUSY;
- goto unlock_mutex;
- }
-
- /*
* The flag must be set after the refcount is bumped
* otherwise it may race with THP split.
* And the flag can't be set in get_hwpoison_page() since
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from xuyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-5.15/mm-huge_memory-do-not-overkill-when-splitting-huge_zero_page.patch
queue-5.15/revert-mm-memory-failure.c-skip-huge_zero_page-in-memory_failure.patch
