From: Aili Yao <yaoaili@kingsoft.com>
To: "HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)" <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
"david@redhat.com" <david@redhat.com>,
"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"bp@alien8.de" <bp@alien8.de>,
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"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"yangfeng1@kingsoft.com" <yangfeng1@kingsoft.com>,
<yaoaili@kingsoft.com>, <sunhao2@kingsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm,hwpoison: return -EBUSY when page already poisoned
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 16:01:07 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210310160107.7383a6f4@alex-virtual-machine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210309082824.GA1793@hori.linux.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>
On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 08:28:24 +0000
HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也) <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 02:35:34PM +0800, Aili Yao wrote:
> > When the page is already poisoned, another memory_failure() call in the
> > same page now return 0, meaning OK. For nested memory mce handling, this
> > behavior may lead to mce looping, Example:
> >
> > 1.When LCME is enabled, and there are two processes A && B running on
> > different core X && Y separately, which will access one same page, then
> > the page corrupted when process A access it, a MCE will be rasied to
> > core X and the error process is just underway.
> >
> > 2.Then B access the page and trigger another MCE to core Y, it will also
> > do error process, it will see TestSetPageHWPoison be true, and 0 is
> > returned.
> >
> > 3.The kill_me_maybe will check the return:
> >
> > 1244 static void kill_me_maybe(struct callback_head *cb)
> > 1245 {
> >
> > 1254 if (!memory_failure(p->mce_addr >> PAGE_SHIFT, flags) &&
> > 1255 !(p->mce_kflags & MCE_IN_KERNEL_COPYIN)) {
> > 1256 set_mce_nospec(p->mce_addr >> PAGE_SHIFT,
> > p->mce_whole_page);
> > 1257 sync_core();
> > 1258 return;
> > 1259 }
> >
> > 1267 }
> >
> > 4. The error process for B will end, and may nothing happened if
> > kill-early is not set, The process B will re-excute instruction and get
> > into mce again and then loop happens. And also the set_mce_nospec()
> > here is not proper, may refer to commit fd0e786d9d09 ("x86/mm,
> > mm/hwpoison: Don't unconditionally unmap kernel 1:1 pages").
> >
> > For other cases which care the return value of memory_failure() should
> > check why they want to process a memory error which have already been
> > processed. This behavior seems reasonable.
>
> Other reviewers shared ideas about the returned value, but actually
> I'm not sure which the best one is (EBUSY is not that bad).
> What we need to fix the reported issue is to return non-zero value
> for "already poisoned" case (the value itself is not so important).
>
> Other callers of memory_failure() (mostly test programs) could see
> the change of return value, but they can already see EBUSY now and
> anyway they should check dmesg for more detail about why failed,
> so the impact of the change is not so big.
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Aili Yao <yaoaili@kingsoft.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
>
> Thanks,
> Naoya Horiguchi
Thanks!
And I found my mail was lost in mailist!
--
Thanks!
Aili Yao
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-10 8:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ 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 [this message]
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
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