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SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 08/12] mm,hwpoison: Rework soft offline for in-use pages
On 2020-08-06 20:49, nao.horiguchi@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
>
> This patch changes the way we set and handle in-use poisoned pages.
> Until now, poisoned pages were released to the buddy allocator,
> trusting
> that the checks that take place prior to hand the page would act as a
> safe net and would skip that page.
>
> This has proved to be wrong, as we got some pfn walkers out there, like
> compaction, that all they care is the page to be PageBuddy and be in a
> freelist.
> Although this might not be the only user, having poisoned pages
> in the buddy allocator seems a bad idea as we should only have
> free pages that are ready and meant to be used as such.
>
> Before explaining the taken approach, let us break down the kind
> of pages we can soft offline.
>
> - Anonymous THP (after the split, they end up being 4K pages)
> - Hugetlb
> - Order-0 pages (that can be either migrated or invalited)
>
> * Normal pages (order-0 and anon-THP)
>
> - If they are clean and unmapped page cache pages, we invalidate
> then by means of invalidate_inode_page().
> - If they are mapped/dirty, we do the isolate-and-migrate dance.
>
> Either way, do not call put_page directly from those paths.
> Instead, we keep the page and send it to page_set_poison to perform
> the
> right handling.
>
> page_set_poison sets the HWPoison flag and does the last put_page.
> This call to put_page is mainly to be able to call
> __page_cache_release,
> since this function is not exported.
>
> Down the chain, we placed a check for HWPoison page in
> free_pages_prepare, that just skips any poisoned page, so those pages
> do not end up in any pcplist/freelist.
>
> After that, we set the refcount on the page to 1 and we increment
> the poisoned pages counter.
>
> We could do as we do for free pages:
> 1) wait until the page hits buddy's freelists
> 2) take it off
> 3) flag it
>
> The problem is that we could race with an allocation, so by the time
> we
> want to take the page off the buddy, the page is already allocated,
> so we
> cannot soft-offline it.
> This is not fatal of course, but if it is better if we can close the
> race
> as does not require a lot of code.
>
> * Hugetlb pages
>
> - We isolate-and-migrate them
>
> After the migration has been successful, we call
> dissolve_free_huge_page,
> and we set HWPoison on the page if we succeed.
> Hugetlb has a slightly different handling though.
>
> While for non-hugetlb pages we cared about closing the race with an
> allocation, doing so for hugetlb pages requires quite some additional
> code (we would need to hook in free_huge_page and some other places).
> So I decided to not make the code overly complicated and just fail
> normally if the page we allocated in the meantime.
>
> Because of the way we handle now in-use pages, we no longer need the
> put-as-isolation-migratetype dance, that was guarding for poisoned
> pages
> to end up in pcplists.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>

Hi Andrew,

I just found out yesterday that the patchset Naoya sent has diverged
from mine in some aspects that lead to some bugs [1].
This was due to a misunderstanding so no blame here.
So, patch#8 and patch#9 need a little tweak [2].

I was wondering what do you prefer?

1) I paste the chunks that need to be changed in the offending patches
(this and patch#9)
2) I just send them as standalone patches and you applied them on top

I am asking this because although patches had hit -next, we might still
have time to change them.
If not, do not worry, I will send them as standalone.

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/comment/23622881/
[2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/comment/23622985/

I will go ahead and paste the chunks here, in case you lean towards
option#1:

Patch#8:

diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index f68cb5e3b320..4ffaaa5c2603 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -67,11 +67,6 @@ atomic_long_t num_poisoned_pages __read_mostly =
ATOMIC_LONG_INIT(0);

static bool page_handle_poison(struct page *page, bool
hugepage_or_freepage, bool release)
{
- if (release) {
- put_page(page);
- drain_all_pages(page_zone(page));
- }
-
if (hugepage_or_freepage) {
/*
* Doing this check for free pages is also fine since
dissolve_free_huge_page
@@ -89,6 +84,12 @@ static bool page_handle_poison(struct page *page,
bool hugepage_or_freepage, boo
}

SetPageHWPoison(page);
+
+ if (release) {
+ put_page(page);
+ drain_all_pages(page_zone(page));
+ }
+
page_ref_inc(page);
num_poisoned_pages_inc();
return true;
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 0d9f9bd0e06c..8a6ab05f074c 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1173,6 +1173,16 @@ static __always_inline bool
free_pages_prepare(struct page *page,

trace_mm_page_free(page, order);

+ if (unlikely(PageHWPoison(page)) && !order) {
+ /*
+ * Untie memcg state and reset page's owner
+ */
+ if (memcg_kmem_enabled() && PageKmemcg(page))
+ __memcg_kmem_uncharge_page(page, order);
+ reset_page_owner(page, order);
+ return false;
+ }
+
/*
* Check tail pages before head page information is cleared to
* avoid checking PageCompound for order-0 pag
Patch#9:

diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index c3b96ca5c86d..a1bc573d91d5 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -1835,7 +1835,7 @@ static int __soft_offline_page(struct page *page)
if (!ret) {
bool release = !huge;

- if (!page_handle_poison(page, true, release))
+ if (!page_handle_poison(page, huge, release))
ret = -EBUSY;
} else {
if (!list_empty(&pagelist)
Thanks ans sorry for the inconvenience.

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