| From | HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也) <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v7 11/14] mm,hwpoison: return 0 if the page is already poisoned in soft-offline | Date | Wed, 23 Sep 2020 07:39:10 +0000 |
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On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 03:56:47PM +0200, Oscar Salvador wrote: > Currently, there is an inconsistency when calling soft-offline from > different paths on a page that is already poisoned. > > 1) madvise: > > madvise_inject_error skips any poisoned page and continues > the loop. > If that was the only page to madvise, it returns 0. > > 2) /sys/devices/system/memory/: > > When calling soft_offline_page_store()->soft_offline_page(), > we return -EBUSY in case the page is already poisoned. > This is inconsistent with a) the above example and b) > memory_failure, where we return 0 if the page was poisoned. > > Fix this by dropping the PageHWPoison() check in madvise_inject_error, and > let soft_offline_page return 0 if it finds the page already poisoned. > > Please, note that this represents a user-api change, since now the return > error when calling soft_offline_page_store()->soft_offline_page() will be > different. > > Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
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