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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 4/8] mm/memory-failure.c: fix race with changing page more robustly
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On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 05:01:14PM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> We're only intended to deal with the non-Compound page after we split thp
> in memory_failure. However, the page could have changed compound pages due
> to race window. If this happens, we could retry once to hopefully handle
> the page next round. Also remove unneeded orig_head. It's always equal to
> the hpage. So we can use hpage directly and remove this redundant one.
>
> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>

Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>

> ---
> mm/memory-failure.c | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
> index 7e205d91b2d7..2ca50cfa601f 100644
> --- a/mm/memory-failure.c
> +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
> @@ -1690,7 +1690,6 @@ int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
> {
> struct page *p;
> struct page *hpage;
> - struct page *orig_head;
> struct dev_pagemap *pgmap;
> int res = 0;
> unsigned long page_flags;
> @@ -1736,7 +1735,7 @@ int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
> goto unlock_mutex;
> }
>
> - orig_head = hpage = compound_head(p);
> + hpage = compound_head(p);
> num_poisoned_pages_inc();
>
> /*
> @@ -1817,10 +1816,21 @@ int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
> lock_page(p);
>
> /*
> - * The page could have changed compound pages during the locking.
> - * If this happens just bail out.
> + * We're only intended to deal with the non-Compound page here.
> + * However, the page could have changed compound pages due to
> + * race window. If this happens, we could try again to hopefully
> + * handle the page next round.
> */
> - if (PageCompound(p) && compound_head(p) != orig_head) {
> + if (PageCompound(p)) {
> + if (retry) {
> + if (TestClearPageHWPoison(p))
> + num_poisoned_pages_dec();
> + unlock_page(p);
> + put_page(p);
> + flags &= ~MF_COUNT_INCREASED;
> + retry = false;
> + goto try_again;
> + }
> action_result(pfn, MF_MSG_DIFFERENT_COMPOUND, MF_IGNORED);
> res = -EBUSY;
> goto unlock_page;
> --
> 2.23.0
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