From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: "Aili Yao" <yaoaili@kingsoft.com>,
"Oscar Salvador" <osalvador@suse.de>,
"HORIGUCHI NAOYA( 堀口 直也)" <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Cc: "tony.luck@intel.com" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"bp@alien8.de" <bp@alien8.de>,
"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"mingo@redhat.com" <mingo@redhat.com>,
"hpa@zytor.com" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
"inux-edac@vger.kernel.org" <inux-edac@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"yangfeng1@kingsoft.com" <yangfeng1@kingsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm,hwpoison: return -EBUSY when page already poisoned
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 12:58:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0d6f0f9c-f644-1246-0530-e39656a207ca@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210331185637.76f863e2@alex-virtual-machine>
On 31.03.21 12:56, Aili Yao wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 12:39:30 +0100
> Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 11:28:18AM +0000, HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也) wrote:
>>> Hi Aili,
>>>
>>> I agree that this set_mce_nospec() is not expected to be called for
>>> "already hwpoisoned" page because in the reported case the error
>>> page is already contained and no need to resort changing cache mode.
>>
>> Out of curiosity, what is the current behavour now?
>> Say we have an ongoing MCE which has marked the page as HWPoison but
>> memory_failure did not take any action on the page yet.
>> And then, we have another MCE, which ends up there.
>> set_mce_nospec might clear _PAGE_PRESENT bit.
>>
>> Does that have any impact on the first MCE?
>>
>>> It seems to me that memory_failure() does not return MF_XXX. But yes,
>>> returning some positive value for the reported case could be a solution.
>>
>> No, you are right. I somehow managed to confuse myself.
>> I see now that MF_XXX return codes are filtered out in page_action.
>>
>>> We could use some negative value (error code) to report the reported case,
>>> then as you mentioned above, some callers need change to handle the
>>> new case, and the same is true if you use some positive value.
>>> My preference is -EHWPOISON, but other options are fine if justified well.
>>
>> -EHWPOISON seems like a good fit.
>>
>
> Hi Oscar, david:
>
> Long away fron this topic, but i noticed today I made a stupid mistake that EHWPOISON is already
> been declared, so we should better return EHWPOISON for this case.
>
> Really sorry for this!
>
> As the patch is still under review, I will post a new version for this, if I change this, may I add
> your review tag here please?
Just resend as v2. We will review and post our RBs there.
--
Thanks,
David / dhildenb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-31 10:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-24 7:16 [PATCH] mm,hwpoison: return -EBUSY when page already poisoned Aili Yao
2021-02-24 10:10 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-02-24 10:31 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-02-25 3:43 ` Aili Yao
2021-02-25 11:28 ` HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)
2021-02-25 11:39 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-02-25 12:38 ` HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)
2021-02-25 18:15 ` Luck, Tony
2021-02-26 2:19 ` HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)
2021-02-26 2:59 ` Aili Yao
2021-03-03 3:39 ` Luck, Tony
2021-03-03 3:57 ` Aili Yao
2021-03-03 8:39 ` Aili Yao
2021-03-03 15:41 ` Luck, Tony
2021-03-04 2:16 ` Aili Yao
2021-03-04 4:19 ` Aili Yao
2021-03-04 6:45 ` Aili Yao
2021-03-04 23:57 ` Luck, Tony
2021-03-05 1:30 ` Aili Yao
2021-03-05 1:36 ` Aili Yao
2021-03-05 22:11 ` Luck, Tony
2021-03-08 6:45 ` HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)
2021-03-08 18:54 ` Luck, Tony
2021-03-08 22:38 ` HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)
2021-03-08 22:55 ` [PATCH] mm/memory-failure: Use a mutex to avoid memory_failure() races Luck, Tony
2021-03-08 23:42 ` HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)
[not found] ` <20210309100421.3d09b6b1@alex-virtual-machine>
2021-03-09 6:04 ` HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)
2021-03-09 6:35 ` [PATCH v2] mm,hwpoison: return -EBUSY when page already poisoned Aili Yao
2021-03-09 8:28 ` HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)
2021-03-09 20:01 ` Luck, Tony
2021-03-10 8:05 ` HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)
2021-03-13 1:55 ` Jue Wang
2021-03-10 8:01 ` Aili Yao
2021-03-31 11:25 ` [PATCH v3] mm,hwpoison: return -EHWPOISON " Aili Yao
2021-04-01 15:33 ` Luck, Tony
2021-04-02 1:18 ` Aili Yao
2021-04-02 15:11 ` Luck, Tony
2021-04-05 13:50 ` HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)
2021-04-06 1:04 ` Aili Yao
2021-03-09 6:38 ` [PATCH] mm/memory-failure: Use a mutex to avoid memory_failure() races Aili Yao
2021-03-05 15:55 ` [PATCH] mm,hwpoison: return -EBUSY when page already poisoned Luck, Tony
2021-03-10 6:10 ` Aili Yao
2021-03-11 8:55 ` HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)
2021-03-11 11:23 ` Aili Yao
2021-03-11 17:05 ` Luck, Tony
2021-03-12 5:55 ` Aili Yao
2021-03-12 16:29 ` Luck, Tony
2021-03-12 23:48 ` Luck, Tony
2021-03-16 6:42 ` HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)
2021-03-16 7:54 ` Aili Yao
2021-03-17 0:29 ` Luck, Tony
2021-03-17 9:07 ` Aili Yao
2021-03-17 7:48 ` Aili Yao
2021-03-17 8:23 ` Aili Yao
2021-02-26 3:26 ` Tony Luck
2021-02-26 2:52 ` Aili Yao
2021-02-26 17:58 ` Luck, Tony
2021-03-02 4:32 ` Aili Yao
2021-03-31 10:56 ` Aili Yao
2021-03-31 10:58 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2021-03-01 23:21 Jue Wang
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