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From: "Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)" <elliott@hpe.com>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>,
	"'dan.j.williams@intel.com'" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	"Kani, Toshimitsu" <toshi.kani@hpe.com>,
	"Vaden, Tom (HPE Server OS Architecture)" <tom.vaden@hpe.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] mm/hwpoison: Clear PRESENT bit for kernel 1:1 mappings of poison pages
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 19:59:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AT5PR84MB0082333B55A6823A73C28989ABDA0@AT5PR84MB0082.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170621174740.npbtg2e4o65tyrss@intel.com>

> +	decoy_addr = (pfn << PAGE_SHIFT) + (PAGE_OFFSET ^ BIT(63));
> +#else
> +#error "no unused virtual bit available"
> +#endif
> +
> +	if (set_memory_np(decoy_addr, 1))
> +		pr_warn("Could not invalidate pfn=0x%lx from 1:1 map \n", pfn);

Does this patch handle breaking up 512 GiB, 1 GiB or 2 MiB page mappings
if it's just trying to mark a 4 KiB page as bad?

Although the kernel doesn't use MTRRs itself anymore, what if the system
BIOS still uses them for some memory regions, and the bad address falls in
an MTRR region?

---
Robert Elliott, HPE Persistent Memory




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  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-21 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-16 19:02 [PATCH] mm/hwpoison: Clear PRESENT bit for kernel 1:1 mappings of poison pages Luck, Tony
2017-06-19 18:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-06-21 17:47   ` Luck, Tony
2017-06-21 19:59     ` Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory) [this message]
2017-06-21 20:19       ` Luck, Tony
2017-06-22  9:39     ` Borislav Petkov
2017-06-29 22:11       ` git send-email (w/o Cc: stable) Luck, Tony
2017-06-30  7:08         ` Borislav Petkov
2017-06-23 22:19     ` [PATCH] mm/hwpoison: Clear PRESENT bit for kernel 1:1 mappings of poison pages Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)
2017-06-27 22:04       ` Luck, Tony
2017-06-27 22:09         ` Dan Williams
2017-08-16 17:18           ` [PATCH-resend] " Luck, Tony
2017-08-17 22:09             ` Andrew Morton
2017-08-17 22:29               ` Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)
2017-08-17 23:32               ` Luck, Tony
2017-06-21  2:12 ` [PATCH] " Naoya Horiguchi
2017-06-21 17:54   ` Luck, Tony
2017-06-21 19:47     ` Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)
2017-06-21 20:30       ` Luck, Tony
2017-06-23  5:07         ` Dan Williams
2017-06-23 20:59           ` Luck, Tony

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