From: "HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)" <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Aili Yao <yaoaili@kingsoft.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>,
"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"mingo@redhat.com" <mingo@redhat.com>,
"hpa@zytor.com" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
"linux-edac@vger.kernel.org" <linux-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: Mon, 8 Mar 2021 06:45:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210308064558.GA3617@hori.linux.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210305221143.GA220893@agluck-desk2.amr.corp.intel.com>
On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 02:11:43PM -0800, Luck, Tony wrote:
> This whole page table walking patch is trying to work around the
> races caused by multiple calls to memory_failure() for the same
> page.
>
> Maybe better to just avoid the races. The comment right above
> memory_failure says:
>
> * Must run in process context (e.g. a work queue) with interrupts
> * enabled and no spinlocks hold.
>
> So it should be safe to grab and hold a mutex. See patch below.
The mutex approach looks simpler and safer, so I'm fine with it.
>
> -Tony
>
> commit 8dd0dbe7d595e02647e9c2c76c03341a9f6bd7b9
> Author: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
> Date: Fri Mar 5 10:40:48 2021 -0800
>
> Use a mutex to avoid memory_failure() races
>
> diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
> index 24210c9bd843..c1509f4b565e 100644
> --- a/mm/memory-failure.c
> +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
> @@ -1381,6 +1381,8 @@ static int memory_failure_dev_pagemap(unsigned long pfn, int flags,
> return rc;
> }
>
> +static DEFINE_MUTEX(mf_mutex);
> +
> /**
> * memory_failure - Handle memory failure of a page.
> * @pfn: Page Number of the corrupted page
> @@ -1424,12 +1426,18 @@ int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
> return -ENXIO;
> }
>
> + mutex_lock(&mf_mutex);
Is it better to take mutex before memory_failure_dev_pagemap() block?
Or we don't have to protect against race for device memory?
Thanks,
Naoya Horiguchi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-08 6:47 UTC|newest]
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2021-02-26 2:59 ` [PATCH] mm,hwpoison: return -EBUSY when page already poisoned 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) [this message]
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)
2021-03-09 2:04 ` Aili Yao
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
2021-03-09 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
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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
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2021-02-26 17:58 ` Luck, Tony
2021-03-02 4:32 ` Aili Yao
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