From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Aili Yao <yaoaili@kingsoft.com>,
naoya.horiguchi@nec.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
tony.luck@intel.com, bp@alien8.de, tglx@linutronix.de,
mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com
Cc: x86@kernel.org, inux-edac@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
yangfeng1@kingsoft.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm,hwpoison: return -EBUSY when page already poisoned
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 11:10:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <97a2511e-2002-ec25-6902-8fe841922138@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210224151619.67c29731@alex-virtual-machine>
On 24.02.21 08:16, 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 real serious problem, 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, We may let the wrong data go into effect.
>
> 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.
>
> In kill_me_maybe, log the fact about the memory may not recovered, and
> we will kill the related process.
>
Is -EBUSY then the right return value?
I'd expect if it's already poisoned that we would get something like
EHWPOISON.
Does this affect existing user space interfaces (especially, via madvise?)?
--
Thanks,
David / dhildenb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-24 10:10 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 [this message]
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
2021-03-01 23:21 Jue Wang
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