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| author | Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> | 2015-08-07 00:47:08 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-08-07 03:39:42 +0200 |
| commit | f4c18e6f7b5bbb5b528b3334115806b0d76f50f9 (patch) | |
| tree | 08e934ca7a74761a3d88ef6c494b93284c918b0c /mm/huge_memory.c | |
| parent | mm/memory-failure: give up error handling for non-tail-refcounted thp (diff) | |
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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.c | 7 |
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) | |