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authorNaoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>2018-08-24 03:00:42 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-08-24 04:48:43 +0300
commitd4ae9916ea2947341180d2b538f48875ff393a86 (patch)
treee478e5e6e84de25fade8f2995c9ee49cacd5a488 /samples
parent6bc9b56433b76e40d11099338d27fbc5cd2935ca (diff)
downloadlinux-d4ae9916ea2947341180d2b538f48875ff393a86.tar.xz
mm: soft-offline: close the race against page allocation
A process can be killed with SIGBUS(BUS_MCEERR_AR) when it tries to allocate a page that was just freed on the way of soft-offline. This is undesirable because soft-offline (which is about corrected error) is less aggressive than hard-offline (which is about uncorrected error), and we can make soft-offline fail and keep using the page for good reason like "system is busy." Two main changes of this patch are: - setting migrate type of the target page to MIGRATE_ISOLATE. As done in free_unref_page_commit(), this makes kernel bypass pcplist when freeing the page. So we can assume that the page is in freelist just after put_page() returns, - setting PG_hwpoison on free page under zone->lock which protects freelists, so this allows us to avoid setting PG_hwpoison on a page that is decided to be allocated soon. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page() comment] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1531452366-11661-3-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Reported-by: Xishi Qiu <xishi.qiuxishi@alibaba-inc.com> Tested-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: <zy.zhengyi@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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