The patch titled Subject: mm/hwpoison: retry with shake_page() for unhandlable pages has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-hwpoison-retry-with-shake_page-for-unhandlable-pages.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-hwpoison-retry-with-shake_page-for-unhandlable-pages.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-hwpoison-retry-with-shake_page-for-unhandlable-pages.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/hwpoison: retry with shake_page() for unhandlable pages HWPoisonHandlable() sometimes returns false for typical user pages due to races with average memory events like transfers over LRU lists. This causes failures in hwpoison handling. There's retry code for such a case but does not work because the retry loop reaches the retry limit too quickly before the page settles down to handlable state. Let get_any_page() call shake_page() to fix it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210817053703.2267588-1-naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxxxx Fixes: 25182f05ffed ("mm,hwpoison: fix race with hugetlb page allocation") Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx> Reported-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [5.13] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory-failure.c | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/mm/memory-failure.c~mm-hwpoison-retry-with-shake_page-for-unhandlable-pages +++ a/mm/memory-failure.c @@ -1146,7 +1146,7 @@ static int __get_hwpoison_page(struct pa * unexpected races caused by taking a page refcount. */ if (!HWPoisonHandlable(head)) - return 0; + return -EBUSY; if (PageTransHuge(head)) { /* @@ -1199,9 +1199,14 @@ try_again: } goto out; } else if (ret == -EBUSY) { - /* We raced with freeing huge page to buddy, retry. */ - if (pass++ < 3) + /* + * We raced with (possibly temporary) unhandlable + * page, retry. + */ + if (pass++ < 3) { + shake_page(p, 1); goto try_again; + } goto out; } } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx are mm-hwpoison-retry-with-shake_page-for-unhandlable-pages.patch mm-sparse-set-section_nid_shift-to-6.patch