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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] mm/memory-failure: try to send SIGBUS even if unmap failed
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On 5/7/2024 2:02 AM, Oscar Salvador wrote:

> On Wed, May 01, 2024 at 05:24:56PM -0600, Jane Chu wrote:
>> For years when it comes down to kill a process due to hwpoison,
>> a SIGBUS is delivered only if unmap has been successful.
>> Otherwise, a SIGKILL is delivered. And the reason for that is
>> to prevent the involved process from accessing the hwpoisoned
>> page again.
>>
>> Since then a lot has changed, a hwpoisoned page is marked and
>> upon being re-accessed, the process will be killed immediately.
>> So let's take out the '!unmap_success' factor and try to deliver
>> SIGBUS if possible.
> I am missing some details here.
> An unmapped hwpoison page will trigger a fault and will return
> VM_FAULT_HWPOISON all the way down and then deliver SIGBUS,
> but if the page was not unmapped, how will this be catch upon
> re-accessing? Will the system deliver a MCE event?
>
I actually managed to hit the re-access case with an older version of
Linux -

MCE occurred, but unmap failed,  no SIGBUS and test process re-access

the same address over and over (hence MCE after MCE), as the CPU

was unable to make forward progress.   In reality, this issue is fixed with

kill_accessing_processes().  The comment for this patch refers to
comment made

about '!unmap_access' long time ago.

thanks,

-jane



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