From: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>, <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <willy@infradead.org>, <vbabka@suse.cz>, <dhowells@redhat.com>,
<neilb@suse.de>, <apopple@nvidia.com>, <surenb@google.com>,
<minchan@kernel.org>, <peterx@redhat.com>, <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
<rcampbell@nvidia.com>, <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>,
<linux-mm@kvack.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm/swapfile: unuse_pte can map random data if swap read fails
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 20:45:21 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <496c6285-df10-8517-c9f6-7c28162d5c80@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7308d733-1e0b-7d2e-bc34-0757555d39d6@redhat.com>
On 2022/4/19 20:12, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 19.04.22 14:00, Miaohe Lin wrote:
>> On 2022/4/19 19:46, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> ...
>>>> Do you mean that we should set the pfn to 0 for the hwpoison marker so that we can
>>>> distinguish swapin error case from real hwpoison case?
>>>
>>> I am not sure if we really have to distinguish. However, "0" seems to
>>> make sense to indicate "this is not an actual problematic PFN, the
>>> information is simply no longer around due to a hardware issue.
>>>
>>
>> IMHO, we have to distinguish. For example, we might need to return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS
>> instead of VM_FAULT_HWPOISON when user accesses the error page. Or should we simply
>> return VM_FAULT_HWPOISON to simplify the handling?
>
> Hm, you're right. In e.g., x86 do_sigbus() we would send an BUS_MCEERR_AR.
>
> So yes, if we reuse is_hwpoison_entry() we'd have to convert to either
> VM_FAULT_HWPOISON or VM_FAULT_SIGBUS.
>
> Something like "is_error_entry()" that can further be refined to
> hwpoison or swapin could make sense. But what you have here is straight
> forward to me as well. Whatever you/others prefer.
IMHO, I prefer to use the separated swapin error maker because reusing hwpoison entry
might make things more complicated and looks somewhat obscure.
>
> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Many thanks for your Acked-by tag!
>
>
> NIT: I'd make the terminology make_swapin_error_entry() consistent with
> SWAP_READ_ERROR and especially existing SWP_.
>
> For example, calling the latter SWP_SWAPIN_ERROR
This looks better. Thanks! Will change to rename the relevant terminology in next
version if no one has an objection. :)
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-19 12:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-16 3:05 [PATCH v2] mm/swapfile: unuse_pte can map random data if swap read fails Miaohe Lin
2022-04-19 3:51 ` Alistair Popple
2022-04-19 7:29 ` Miaohe Lin
2022-04-19 7:39 ` David Hildenbrand
2022-04-19 8:08 ` Alistair Popple
2022-04-19 11:14 ` David Hildenbrand
2022-04-19 16:16 ` Peter Xu
2022-04-19 11:14 ` Miaohe Lin
2022-04-19 7:53 ` Alistair Popple
2022-04-19 11:26 ` Miaohe Lin
2022-04-20 0:25 ` Alistair Popple
2022-04-20 6:15 ` Miaohe Lin
2022-04-20 7:07 ` David Hildenbrand
2022-04-20 8:37 ` Miaohe Lin
2022-04-19 7:37 ` David Hildenbrand
2022-04-19 11:21 ` Miaohe Lin
2022-04-19 11:46 ` David Hildenbrand
2022-04-19 12:00 ` Miaohe Lin
2022-04-19 12:12 ` David Hildenbrand
2022-04-19 12:45 ` Miaohe Lin [this message]
2022-04-19 21:36 ` Peter Xu
2022-04-20 5:56 ` [PATCH] mm/swap: Fix lost swap bits in unuse_pte() kernel test robot
2022-04-20 6:23 ` Miaohe Lin
2022-04-20 6:39 ` [kbuild-all] " Philip Li
2022-04-20 6:52 ` Miaohe Lin
2022-04-20 6:48 ` Chen, Rong A
2022-04-20 6:56 ` Miaohe Lin
2022-04-20 6:21 ` [PATCH v2] mm/swapfile: unuse_pte can map random data if swap read fails Miaohe Lin
2022-04-20 13:32 ` Peter Xu
2022-04-21 1:50 ` Miaohe Lin
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