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From: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	Linux NVDIMM <nvdimm@lists.linux.dev>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@suse.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFT PATCH] x86/pat: Fix set_mce_nospec() for pmem
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 00:12:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c270aa05-f624-e145-d02b-259a664e9a2e@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4jvamMXn_rWhqQZruSU6fqeNt+-LHmYb00=sZjOQOL42Q@mail.gmail.com>

Hi, Dan,

On 8/26/2021 12:08 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 6:01 PM Dan Williams<dan.j.williams@intel.com>  wrote:
>> When poison is discovered and triggers memory_failure() the physical
>> page is unmapped from all process address space. However, it is not
>> unmapped from kernel address space. Unlike a typical memory page that
>> can be retired from use in the page allocator and marked 'not present',
>> pmem needs to remain accessible given it can not be physically remapped
>> or retired. set_memory_uc() tries to maintain consistent nominal memtype
>> mappings for a given pfn, but memory_failure() is an exceptional
>> condition.
>>
>> For the same reason that set_memory_np() bypasses memtype checks
>> because they do not apply in the memory failure case, memtype validation
>> is not applicable for marking the pmem pfn uncacheable. Use
>> _set_memory_uc().
>>
>> Reported-by: Jane Chu<jane.chu@oracle.com>
>> Fixes: 284ce4011ba6 ("x86/memory_failure: Introduce {set,clear}_mce_nospec()")
>> Cc: Luis Chamberlain<mcgrof@suse.com>
>> Cc: Borislav Petkov<bp@alien8.de>
>> Cc: Tony Luck<tony.luck@intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams<dan.j.williams@intel.com>
>> ---
>> Jane, can you give this a try and see if it cleans up the error you are
>> seeing?
>>
>> Thanks for the help.
> Jane, does this resolve the failure you reported [1]?
> 
> [1]:https://lore.kernel.org/r/327f9156-9b28-d20e-2850-21c125ece8c7@oracle.com
> 

Sorry for taking so long.  With the patch applied, the dmesg is displaying
[ 2111.282759] Memory failure: 0x1850600: recovery action for dax page: 
Recovered
[ 2112.415412] x86/PAT: fsdax_poison_v1:3214 freeing invalid memtype 
[mem 0x1850600000-0x1850600fff]

instead of the problematic

[10683.426147] x86/PAT: fsdax_poison_v1:5018 conflicting memory types 
1850600000-1850601000  uncached-minus<->write-back

Please feel free to add Tested-by: Jane Chu<jane.chu@oracle.com>

Thanks for the fix!

-jane






  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-27  7:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-07  1:01 [RFT PATCH] x86/pat: Fix set_mce_nospec() for pmem Dan Williams
2021-08-26 19:08 ` Dan Williams
2021-08-27  7:12   ` Jane Chu [this message]
2021-09-13 10:29 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-14 18:08   ` Dan Williams
2021-09-15 10:41     ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-16 20:33       ` Dan Williams
2021-09-17 11:30         ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-21  2:04           ` Dan Williams
2021-09-30 17:19             ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-30 17:28               ` Luck, Tony
2021-09-30 19:30                 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-30 19:41                   ` Dan Williams
2021-09-30 19:44                   ` Luck, Tony
2021-09-30 20:01                     ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-30 20:15                       ` Luck, Tony
2021-09-30 20:32                         ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-30 20:39                           ` Dan Williams
2021-09-30 20:54                             ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-30 21:05                               ` Dan Williams
2021-09-30 21:20                                 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-30 21:41                                   ` Dan Williams
2021-09-30 22:35                                     ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-30 22:44                                       ` Dan Williams
2021-10-01 10:41                                         ` Borislav Petkov
2021-10-01  0:43                                       ` Jane Chu
2021-10-01  2:02                                         ` Dan Williams
2021-10-01 10:50                                           ` Borislav Petkov
2021-10-01 16:52                                             ` Dan Williams
2021-10-01 18:11                                               ` Borislav Petkov
2021-10-01 18:29                                                 ` Dan Williams
2021-10-02 10:17                                                   ` Borislav Petkov
2021-11-11  0:06                                                     ` Jane Chu
2021-11-12  0:30                                                       ` Jane Chu
2021-11-12  0:51                                                         ` Dan Williams
2021-11-12 17:57                                                           ` Jane Chu
2021-11-12 19:24                                                             ` Dan Williams
2021-11-12 22:35                                                               ` Jane Chu
2021-11-12 22:50                                                                 ` Jane Chu
2021-11-12 23:08                                                                 ` Dan Williams
2021-11-13  5:50                                                                   ` Jane Chu
2021-11-13 20:47                                                                     ` Dan Williams
2021-11-18 19:03                                                                       ` Jane Chu
2021-11-25  0:16                                                                         ` Dan Williams
2021-11-30 23:00                                                                           ` Jane Chu
2021-09-30 18:15         ` Jane Chu
2021-09-30 19:11           ` Dan Williams
2021-09-30 21:23             ` Jane Chu

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