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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com, mike.kravetz@oracle.com,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 10/16] mm,hwpoison: Rework soft offline for free pages
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 12:24:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191022102457.GJ9379@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191022095852.GB20429@linux>

On Tue 22-10-19 11:58:52, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 11:22:56AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > Hmm, that might be a misunderstanding on my end. I thought that it is
> > the MCE handler to say whether the failure is recoverable or not. If yes
> > then we can touch the content of the memory (that would imply the
> > migration). Other than that both paths should be essentially the same,
> > no? Well unrecoverable case would be essentially force migration failure
> > path.
> > 
> > MADV_HWPOISON is explicitly documented to test MCE handling IIUC:
> > : This feature is intended for testing of memory error-handling
> > : code; it is available only if the kernel was configured with
> > : CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE.
> > 
> > There is no explicit note about the type of the error that is injected
> > but I think it is reasonably safe to assume this is a recoverable one.
> 
> MADV_HWPOISON stands for hard-offline.
> MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE stands for soft-offline.
> 
> MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE (since Linux 2.6.33)
>               Soft offline the pages in the range specified by addr and
>               length.  The memory of each page in the specified range is
>               preserved (i.e., when next accessed, the same content will be
>               visible, but in a new physical page frame), and the original
>               page is offlined (i.e., no longer used, and taken out of
>               normal memory management).  The effect of the
>               MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE operation is invisible to (i.e., does not
>               change the semantics of) the calling process.
> 
>               This feature is intended for testing of memory error-handling
>               code; it is available only if the kernel was configured with
>               CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE.

I have missed that one somehow. Thanks for pointing out.

[...]

> AFAICS, for hard-offline case, a recovered event would be if:
> 
> - the page to shut down is already free
> - the page was unmapped
> 
> In some cases we need to kill the process if it holds dirty pages.

Yes, I would expect that the page table would be poisoned and the
process receive a SIGBUS when accessing that memory.

> But we never migrate contents in hard-offline path.
> I guess it is because we cannot really trust the contents anymore.

Yes, that makes a perfect sense. What I am saying that the migration
(aka trying to recover) is the main and only difference. The soft
offline should poison page tables when not able to migrate as well
IIUC.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-22 10:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-17 14:21 [RFC PATCH v2 00/16] Hwpoison rework {hard,soft}-offline Oscar Salvador
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 01/16] mm,hwpoison: cleanup unused PageHuge() check Oscar Salvador
2019-10-18 11:48   ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-21  7:00     ` Naoya Horiguchi
2019-10-21 12:16       ` Michal Hocko
2019-11-12 12:22       ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2019-11-13  6:02         ` Naoya Horiguchi
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 02/16] mm,madvise: call soft_offline_page() without MF_COUNT_INCREASED Oscar Salvador
2019-10-18 11:52   ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-21  7:02     ` Naoya Horiguchi
2019-10-21 12:20       ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 03/16] mm,madvise: Refactor madvise_inject_error Oscar Salvador
2019-10-21  7:03   ` Naoya Horiguchi
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 04/16] mm,hwpoison-inject: don't pin for hwpoison_filter Oscar Salvador
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 05/16] mm,hwpoison: Un-export get_hwpoison_page and make it static Oscar Salvador
2019-10-21  7:03   ` Naoya Horiguchi
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 06/16] mm,hwpoison: Kill put_hwpoison_page Oscar Salvador
2019-10-21  7:04   ` Naoya Horiguchi
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 07/16] mm,hwpoison: remove MF_COUNT_INCREASED Oscar Salvador
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 08/16] mm,hwpoison: remove flag argument from soft offline functions Oscar Salvador
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 09/16] mm,hwpoison: Unify THP handling for hard and soft offline Oscar Salvador
2019-10-21  7:04   ` Naoya Horiguchi
2019-10-21  9:51     ` [PATCH 17/16] mm,hwpoison: introduce MF_MSG_UNSPLIT_THP Naoya Horiguchi
2019-10-22  8:00       ` Oscar Salvador
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 10/16] mm,hwpoison: Rework soft offline for free pages Oscar Salvador
2019-10-18 12:06   ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-21 12:58     ` Oscar Salvador
2019-10-21 15:41       ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-22  7:46         ` Oscar Salvador
2019-10-22  8:26           ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-22  8:35             ` Oscar Salvador
2019-10-22  9:22               ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-22  9:58                 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-10-22 10:24                   ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2019-10-22 10:33                     ` Oscar Salvador
2019-10-23  2:15                       ` Naoya Horiguchi
2019-10-23  2:01                   ` Naoya Horiguchi
2019-10-21  7:45   ` Naoya Horiguchi
2019-10-22  8:00     ` Oscar Salvador
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 11/16] mm,hwpoison: Rework soft offline for in-use pages Oscar Salvador
2019-10-18 12:39   ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-21 13:48     ` Oscar Salvador
2019-10-21 14:06       ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-22  7:56         ` Oscar Salvador
2019-10-22  8:30           ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-22  9:40             ` Oscar Salvador
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 12/16] mm,hwpoison: Refactor soft_offline_huge_page and __soft_offline_page Oscar Salvador
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 13/16] mm,hwpoison: Take pages off the buddy when hard-offlining Oscar Salvador
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 14/16] mm,hwpoison: Return 0 if the page is already poisoned in soft-offline Oscar Salvador
2019-10-21  9:20   ` Naoya Horiguchi
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 15/16] mm/hwpoison-inject: Rip off duplicated checks Oscar Salvador
2019-10-21  9:40   ` David Hildenbrand
2019-10-22  7:57     ` Oscar Salvador
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 16/16] mm, soft-offline: convert parameter to pfn Oscar Salvador
2019-10-18  8:15   ` David Hildenbrand
2020-06-11 16:43 ` [RFC PATCH v2 00/16] Hwpoison rework {hard,soft}-offline Dmitry Yakunin
2020-06-15  6:19   ` HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口　直也)

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