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authorNaoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>2015-08-07 01:47:08 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-08-07 04:39:42 +0300
commitf4c18e6f7b5bbb5b528b3334115806b0d76f50f9 (patch)
tree08e934ca7a74761a3d88ef6c494b93284c918b0c /include/linux/page-flags.h
parent98ed2b0052e68420f1bad6c81e3f2600d25023e7 (diff)
downloadlinux-f4c18e6f7b5bbb5b528b3334115806b0d76f50f9.tar.xz
mm: check __PG_HWPOISON separately from PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_*
The race condition addressed in commit add05cecef80 ("mm: soft-offline: don't free target page in successful page migration") was not closed completely, because that can happen not only for soft-offline, but also for hard-offline. Consider that a slab page is about to be freed into buddy pool, and then an uncorrected memory error hits the page just after entering __free_one_page(), then VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page->flags & PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP) is triggered, despite the fact that it's not necessary because the data on the affected page is not consumed. To solve it, this patch drops __PG_HWPOISON from page flag checks at allocation/free time. I think it's justified because __PG_HWPOISON flags is defined to prevent the page from being reused, and setting it outside the page's alloc-free cycle is a designed behavior (not a bug.) For recent months, I was annoyed about BUG_ON when soft-offlined page remains on lru cache list for a while, which is avoided by calling put_page() instead of putback_lru_page() in page migration's success path. This means that this patch reverts a major change from commit add05cecef80 about the new refcounting rule of soft-offlined pages, so "reuse window" revives. This will be closed by a subsequent patch. Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Dean Nelson <dnelson@redhat.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/page-flags.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/page-flags.h10
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
index f34e040b34e9..41c93844fb1d 100644
--- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
+++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -631,15 +631,19 @@ static inline void ClearPageSlabPfmemalloc(struct page *page)
1 << PG_private | 1 << PG_private_2 | \
1 << PG_writeback | 1 << PG_reserved | \
1 << PG_slab | 1 << PG_swapcache | 1 << PG_active | \
- 1 << PG_unevictable | __PG_MLOCKED | __PG_HWPOISON | \
+ 1 << PG_unevictable | __PG_MLOCKED | \
__PG_COMPOUND_LOCK)
/*
* Flags checked when a page is prepped for return by the page allocator.
- * Pages being prepped should not have any flags set. It they are set,
+ * Pages being prepped should not have these flags set. It they are set,
* there has been a kernel bug or struct page corruption.
+ *
+ * __PG_HWPOISON is exceptional because it needs to be kept beyond page's
+ * alloc-free cycle to prevent from reusing the page.
*/
-#define PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP ((1 << NR_PAGEFLAGS) - 1)
+#define PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP \
+ (((1 << NR_PAGEFLAGS) - 1) & ~__PG_HWPOISON)
#define PAGE_FLAGS_PRIVATE \
(1 << PG_private | 1 << PG_private_2)