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SubjectRe: memory offline infinite loop after soft offline
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On 17.10.19 12:01, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 17-10-19 09:34:10, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 10:39:14AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> [...]
>>> diff --git a/mm/page_isolation.c b/mm/page_isolation.c
>>> index 89c19c0feadb..5fb3fee16fde 100644
>>> --- a/mm/page_isolation.c
>>> +++ b/mm/page_isolation.c
>>> @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ __test_page_isolated_in_pageblock(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long end_pfn,
>>> * simple way to verify that as VM_BUG_ON(), though.
>>> */
>>> pfn += 1 << page_order(page);
>>> - else if (skip_hwpoisoned_pages && PageHWPoison(page))
>>> + else if (skip_hwpoisoned_pages && PageHWPoison(compound_head(page)))
>>> /* A HWPoisoned page cannot be also PageBuddy */
>>> pfn++;
>>> else
>>
>> This fix looks good to me. The original code only addresses hwpoisoned 4kB-page,
>> we seem to have this issue since the following commit,
>
> Thanks a lot for double checking Naoya!
>
>> commit b023f46813cde6e3b8a8c24f432ff9c1fd8e9a64
>> Author: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
>> Date: Tue Dec 11 16:00:45 2012 -0800
>>
>> memory-hotplug: skip HWPoisoned page when offlining pages
>>
>> and extension of LTP coverage finally discovered this.
>
> Qian, could you give the patch some testing?
> ---
>
> From 441a9515dcdb29bb0ca39ff995632907d959032f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 11:49:15 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] hugetlb, memory_hotplug: fix HWPoisoned tail pages properly
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> Qian Cai has noticed that hwpoisoned hugetlb pages prevent memory
> offlining from making a forward progress. He has nailed down the issue
> to be __test_page_isolated_in_pageblock always returning EBUSY because
> of soft offlined page:
> [  101.665160][ T8885] pfn = 77501, end_pfn = 78000
> [  101.665245][ T8885] page:c00c000001dd4040 refcount:0 mapcount:0
> mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0
> [  101.665329][ T8885] flags: 0x3fffc000000000()
> [  101.665391][ T8885] raw: 003fffc000000000 0000000000000000 ffffffff01dd0500
> 0000000000000000
> [  101.665498][ T8885] raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff
> 0000000000000000
> [  101.665588][ T8885] page dumped because: soft_offline
> [  101.665639][ T8885] page_owner tracks the page as freed
> [  101.665697][ T8885] page last allocated via order 5, migratetype Movable,
> gfp_mask
> 0x346cca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_
> THISNODE)
> [  101.665924][ T8885]  prep_new_page+0x3c0/0x440
> [  101.665962][ T8885]  get_page_from_freelist+0x2568/0x2bb0
> [  101.666059][ T8885]  __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1b4/0x670
> [  101.666115][ T8885]  alloc_fresh_huge_page+0x244/0x6e0
> [  101.666183][ T8885]  alloc_migrate_huge_page+0x30/0x70
> [  101.666254][ T8885]  alloc_new_node_page+0xc4/0x380
> [  101.666325][ T8885]  migrate_pages+0x3b4/0x19e0
> [  101.666375][ T8885]  do_move_pages_to_node.isra.29.part.30+0x44/0xa0
> [  101.666464][ T8885]  kernel_move_pages+0x498/0xfc0
> [  101.666520][ T8885]  sys_move_pages+0x28/0x40
> [  101.666643][ T8885]  system_call+0x5c/0x68
> [  101.666665][ T8885] page last free stack trace:
> [  101.666704][ T8885]  __free_pages_ok+0xa4c/0xd40
> [  101.666773][ T8885]  update_and_free_page+0x2dc/0x5b0
> [  101.666821][ T8885]  free_huge_page+0x2dc/0x740
> [  101.666875][ T8885]  __put_compound_page+0x64/0xc0
> [  101.666926][ T8885]  putback_active_hugepage+0x228/0x390
> [  101.666990][ T8885]  migrate_pages+0xa78/0x19e0
> [  101.667048][ T8885]  soft_offline_page+0x314/0x1050
> [  101.667117][ T8885]  sys_madvise+0x1068/0x1080
> [  101.667185][ T8885]  system_call+0x5c/0x68
>
> The reason is that __test_page_isolated_in_pageblock doesn't recognize
> hugetlb tail pages as the HWPoison bit is not transferred from the head
> page. Pfn walker then doesn't recognize those pages and so EBUSY is
> returned up the call chain.
>
> The proper fix would be to handle HWPoison throughout the huge page but
> considering there is a WIP to rework that code considerably let's go
> with a simple and easily backportable workaround and simply check the
> the head of a compound page for the HWPoison flag.
>
> Reported-and-analyzed-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
> Fixes: b023f46813cd ("memory-hotplug: skip HWPoisoned page when offlining pages")
> Cc: stable
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> ---
> mm/page_isolation.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_isolation.c b/mm/page_isolation.c
> index 89c19c0feadb..5fb3fee16fde 100644
> --- a/mm/page_isolation.c
> +++ b/mm/page_isolation.c
> @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ __test_page_isolated_in_pageblock(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long end_pfn,
> * simple way to verify that as VM_BUG_ON(), though.
> */
> pfn += 1 << page_order(page);
> - else if (skip_hwpoisoned_pages && PageHWPoison(page))
> + else if (skip_hwpoisoned_pages && PageHWPoison(compound_head(page)))
> /* A HWPoisoned page cannot be also PageBuddy */
> pfn++;
> else
>

With the extended description, this makes sense to me now :)

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

--

Thanks,

David / dhildenb

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