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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 /mm/huge_memory.c
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 'mm/huge_memory.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/huge_memory.c7
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index c107094f79ba..097c7a4bfbd9 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1676,12 +1676,7 @@ static void __split_huge_page_refcount(struct page *page,
/* after clearing PageTail the gup refcount can be released */
smp_mb__after_atomic();
- /*
- * retain hwpoison flag of the poisoned tail page:
- * fix for the unsuitable process killed on Guest Machine(KVM)
- * by the memory-failure.
- */
- page_tail->flags &= ~PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP | __PG_HWPOISON;
+ page_tail->flags &= ~PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP;
page_tail->flags |= (page->flags &
((1L << PG_referenced) |
(1L << PG_swapbacked) |