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author | James Morris <jmorris@macbook.(none)> | 2009-12-03 09:33:40 +0300 |
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committer | James Morris <jmorris@macbook.(none)> | 2009-12-03 09:33:40 +0300 |
commit | c84d6efd363a3948eb32ec40d46bab6338580454 (patch) | |
tree | 3ba7ac46e6626fe8ac843834588609eb6ccee5c6 /Documentation/vm | |
parent | 7539cf4b92be4aecc573ea962135f246a7a33401 (diff) | |
parent | 22763c5cf3690a681551162c15d34d935308c8d7 (diff) | |
download | linux-c84d6efd363a3948eb32ec40d46bab6338580454.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'master' into next
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt | 136 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/ksm.txt | 13 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/page-types.c | 304 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt | 8 |
4 files changed, 361 insertions, 100 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..3ffadf8da61f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt @@ -0,0 +1,136 @@ +What is hwpoison? + +Upcoming Intel CPUs have support for recovering from some memory errors +(``MCA recovery''). This requires the OS to declare a page "poisoned", +kill the processes associated with it and avoid using it in the future. + +This patchkit implements the necessary infrastructure in the VM. + +To quote the overview comment: + + * High level machine check handler. Handles pages reported by the + * hardware as being corrupted usually due to a 2bit ECC memory or cache + * failure. + * + * This focusses on pages detected as corrupted in the background. + * When the current CPU tries to consume corruption the currently + * running process can just be killed directly instead. This implies + * that if the error cannot be handled for some reason it's safe to + * just ignore it because no corruption has been consumed yet. Instead + * when that happens another machine check will happen. + * + * Handles page cache pages in various states. The tricky part + * here is that we can access any page asynchronous to other VM + * users, because memory failures could happen anytime and anywhere, + * possibly violating some of their assumptions. This is why this code + * has to be extremely careful. Generally it tries to use normal locking + * rules, as in get the standard locks, even if that means the + * error handling takes potentially a long time. + * + * Some of the operations here are somewhat inefficient and have non + * linear algorithmic complexity, because the data structures have not + * been optimized for this case. This is in particular the case + * for the mapping from a vma to a process. Since this case is expected + * to be rare we hope we can get away with this. + +The code consists of a the high level handler in mm/memory-failure.c, +a new page poison bit and various checks in the VM to handle poisoned +pages. + +The main target right now is KVM guests, but it works for all kinds +of applications. KVM support requires a recent qemu-kvm release. + +For the KVM use there was need for a new signal type so that +KVM can inject the machine check into the guest with the proper +address. This in theory allows other applications to handle +memory failures too. The expection is that near all applications +won't do that, but some very specialized ones might. + +--- + +There are two (actually three) modi memory failure recovery can be in: + +vm.memory_failure_recovery sysctl set to zero: + All memory failures cause a panic. Do not attempt recovery. + (on x86 this can be also affected by the tolerant level of the + MCE subsystem) + +early kill + (can be controlled globally and per process) + Send SIGBUS to the application as soon as the error is detected + This allows applications who can process memory errors in a gentle + way (e.g. drop affected object) + This is the mode used by KVM qemu. + +late kill + Send SIGBUS when the application runs into the corrupted page. + This is best for memory error unaware applications and default + Note some pages are always handled as late kill. + +--- + +User control: + +vm.memory_failure_recovery + See sysctl.txt + +vm.memory_failure_early_kill + Enable early kill mode globally + +PR_MCE_KILL + Set early/late kill mode/revert to system default + arg1: PR_MCE_KILL_CLEAR: Revert to system default + arg1: PR_MCE_KILL_SET: arg2 defines thread specific mode + PR_MCE_KILL_EARLY: Early kill + PR_MCE_KILL_LATE: Late kill + PR_MCE_KILL_DEFAULT: Use system global default +PR_MCE_KILL_GET + return current mode + + +--- + +Testing: + +madvise(MADV_POISON, ....) + (as root) + Poison a page in the process for testing + + +hwpoison-inject module through debugfs + /sys/debug/hwpoison/corrupt-pfn + +Inject hwpoison fault at PFN echoed into this file + + +Architecture specific MCE injector + +x86 has mce-inject, mce-test + +Some portable hwpoison test programs in mce-test, see blow. + +--- + +References: + +http://halobates.de/mce-lc09-2.pdf + Overview presentation from LinuxCon 09 + +git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/cpu/mce/mce-test.git + Test suite (hwpoison specific portable tests in tsrc) + +git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/cpu/mce/mce-inject.git + x86 specific injector + + +--- + +Limitations: + +- Not all page types are supported and never will. Most kernel internal +objects cannot be recovered, only LRU pages for now. +- Right now hugepage support is missing. + +--- +Andi Kleen, Oct 2009 + diff --git a/Documentation/vm/ksm.txt b/Documentation/vm/ksm.txt index 72a22f65960e..262d8e6793a3 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/ksm.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/ksm.txt @@ -52,15 +52,15 @@ The KSM daemon is controlled by sysfs files in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/, readable by all but writable only by root: max_kernel_pages - set to maximum number of kernel pages that KSM may use - e.g. "echo 2000 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/max_kernel_pages" + e.g. "echo 100000 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/max_kernel_pages" Value 0 imposes no limit on the kernel pages KSM may use; but note that any process using MADV_MERGEABLE can cause KSM to allocate these pages, unswappable until it exits. - Default: 2000 (chosen for demonstration purposes) + Default: quarter of memory (chosen to not pin too much) pages_to_scan - how many present pages to scan before ksmd goes to sleep - e.g. "echo 200 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_to_scan" - Default: 200 (chosen for demonstration purposes) + e.g. "echo 100 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_to_scan" + Default: 100 (chosen for demonstration purposes) sleep_millisecs - how many milliseconds ksmd should sleep before next scan e.g. "echo 20 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/sleep_millisecs" @@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ run - set 0 to stop ksmd from running but keep merged pages, set 1 to run ksmd e.g. "echo 1 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run", set 2 to stop ksmd and unmerge all pages currently merged, but leave mergeable areas registered for next run - Default: 1 (for immediate use by apps which register) + Default: 0 (must be changed to 1 to activate KSM, + except if CONFIG_SYSFS is disabled) The effectiveness of KSM and MADV_MERGEABLE is shown in /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/: @@ -86,4 +87,4 @@ pages_volatile embraces several different kinds of activity, but a high proportion there would also indicate poor use of madvise MADV_MERGEABLE. Izik Eidus, -Hugh Dickins, 30 July 2009 +Hugh Dickins, 24 Sept 2009 diff --git a/Documentation/vm/page-types.c b/Documentation/vm/page-types.c index fa1a30d9e9d5..4793c6aac733 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/page-types.c +++ b/Documentation/vm/page-types.c @@ -2,7 +2,10 @@ * page-types: Tool for querying page flags * * Copyright (C) 2009 Intel corporation - * Copyright (C) 2009 Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> + * + * Authors: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> + * + * Released under the General Public License (GPL). */ #define _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE @@ -69,7 +72,9 @@ #define KPF_COMPOUND_TAIL 16 #define KPF_HUGE 17 #define KPF_UNEVICTABLE 18 +#define KPF_HWPOISON 19 #define KPF_NOPAGE 20 +#define KPF_KSM 21 /* [32-] kernel hacking assistances */ #define KPF_RESERVED 32 @@ -116,7 +121,9 @@ static char *page_flag_names[] = { [KPF_COMPOUND_TAIL] = "T:compound_tail", [KPF_HUGE] = "G:huge", [KPF_UNEVICTABLE] = "u:unevictable", + [KPF_HWPOISON] = "X:hwpoison", [KPF_NOPAGE] = "n:nopage", + [KPF_KSM] = "x:ksm", [KPF_RESERVED] = "r:reserved", [KPF_MLOCKED] = "m:mlocked", @@ -152,9 +159,6 @@ static unsigned long opt_size[MAX_ADDR_RANGES]; static int nr_vmas; static unsigned long pg_start[MAX_VMAS]; static unsigned long pg_end[MAX_VMAS]; -static unsigned long voffset; - -static int pagemap_fd; #define MAX_BIT_FILTERS 64 static int nr_bit_filters; @@ -163,9 +167,16 @@ static uint64_t opt_bits[MAX_BIT_FILTERS]; static int page_size; -#define PAGES_BATCH (64 << 10) /* 64k pages */ +static int pagemap_fd; static int kpageflags_fd; +static int opt_hwpoison; +static int opt_unpoison; + +static char *hwpoison_debug_fs = "/debug/hwpoison"; +static int hwpoison_inject_fd; +static int hwpoison_forget_fd; + #define HASH_SHIFT 13 #define HASH_SIZE (1 << HASH_SHIFT) #define HASH_MASK (HASH_SIZE - 1) @@ -207,6 +218,74 @@ static void fatal(const char *x, ...) exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } +static int checked_open(const char *pathname, int flags) +{ + int fd = open(pathname, flags); + + if (fd < 0) { + perror(pathname); + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } + + return fd; +} + +/* + * pagemap/kpageflags routines + */ + +static unsigned long do_u64_read(int fd, char *name, + uint64_t *buf, + unsigned long index, + unsigned long count) +{ + long bytes; + + if (index > ULONG_MAX / 8) + fatal("index overflow: %lu\n", index); + + if (lseek(fd, index * 8, SEEK_SET) < 0) { + perror(name); + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } + + bytes = read(fd, buf, count * 8); + if (bytes < 0) { + perror(name); + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } + if (bytes % 8) + fatal("partial read: %lu bytes\n", bytes); + + return bytes / 8; +} + +static unsigned long kpageflags_read(uint64_t *buf, + unsigned long index, + unsigned long pages) +{ + return do_u64_read(kpageflags_fd, PROC_KPAGEFLAGS, buf, index, pages); +} + +static unsigned long pagemap_read(uint64_t *buf, + unsigned long index, + unsigned long pages) +{ + return do_u64_read(pagemap_fd, "/proc/pid/pagemap", buf, index, pages); +} + +static unsigned long pagemap_pfn(uint64_t val) +{ + unsigned long pfn; + + if (val & PM_PRESENT) + pfn = PM_PFRAME(val); + else + pfn = 0; + + return pfn; +} + /* * page flag names @@ -255,7 +334,8 @@ static char *page_flag_longname(uint64_t flags) * page list and summary */ -static void show_page_range(unsigned long offset, uint64_t flags) +static void show_page_range(unsigned long voffset, + unsigned long offset, uint64_t flags) { static uint64_t flags0; static unsigned long voff; @@ -281,7 +361,8 @@ static void show_page_range(unsigned long offset, uint64_t flags) count = 1; } -static void show_page(unsigned long offset, uint64_t flags) +static void show_page(unsigned long voffset, + unsigned long offset, uint64_t flags) { if (opt_pid) printf("%lx\t", voffset); @@ -362,6 +443,62 @@ static uint64_t well_known_flags(uint64_t flags) return flags; } +static uint64_t kpageflags_flags(uint64_t flags) +{ + flags = expand_overloaded_flags(flags); + + if (!opt_raw) + flags = well_known_flags(flags); + + return flags; +} + +/* + * page actions + */ + +static void prepare_hwpoison_fd(void) +{ + char buf[100]; + + if (opt_hwpoison && !hwpoison_inject_fd) { + sprintf(buf, "%s/corrupt-pfn", hwpoison_debug_fs); + hwpoison_inject_fd = checked_open(buf, O_WRONLY); + } + + if (opt_unpoison && !hwpoison_forget_fd) { + sprintf(buf, "%s/renew-pfn", hwpoison_debug_fs); + hwpoison_forget_fd = checked_open(buf, O_WRONLY); + } +} + +static int hwpoison_page(unsigned long offset) +{ + char buf[100]; + int len; + + len = sprintf(buf, "0x%lx\n", offset); + len = write(hwpoison_inject_fd, buf, len); + if (len < 0) { + perror("hwpoison inject"); + return len; + } + return 0; +} + +static int unpoison_page(unsigned long offset) +{ + char buf[100]; + int len; + + len = sprintf(buf, "0x%lx\n", offset); + len = write(hwpoison_forget_fd, buf, len); + if (len < 0) { + perror("hwpoison forget"); + return len; + } + return 0; +} /* * page frame walker @@ -394,104 +531,83 @@ static int hash_slot(uint64_t flags) exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } -static void add_page(unsigned long offset, uint64_t flags) +static void add_page(unsigned long voffset, + unsigned long offset, uint64_t flags) { - flags = expand_overloaded_flags(flags); - - if (!opt_raw) - flags = well_known_flags(flags); + flags = kpageflags_flags(flags); if (!bit_mask_ok(flags)) return; + if (opt_hwpoison) + hwpoison_page(offset); + if (opt_unpoison) + unpoison_page(offset); + if (opt_list == 1) - show_page_range(offset, flags); + show_page_range(voffset, offset, flags); else if (opt_list == 2) - show_page(offset, flags); + show_page(voffset, offset, flags); nr_pages[hash_slot(flags)]++; total_pages++; } -static void walk_pfn(unsigned long index, unsigned long count) +#define KPAGEFLAGS_BATCH (64 << 10) /* 64k pages */ +static void walk_pfn(unsigned long voffset, + unsigned long index, + unsigned long count) { + uint64_t buf[KPAGEFLAGS_BATCH]; unsigned long batch; - unsigned long n; + unsigned long pages; unsigned long i; - if (index > ULONG_MAX / KPF_BYTES) - fatal("index overflow: %lu\n", index); - - lseek(kpageflags_fd, index * KPF_BYTES, SEEK_SET); - while (count) { - uint64_t kpageflags_buf[KPF_BYTES * PAGES_BATCH]; - - batch = min_t(unsigned long, count, PAGES_BATCH); - n = read(kpageflags_fd, kpageflags_buf, batch * KPF_BYTES); - if (n == 0) + batch = min_t(unsigned long, count, KPAGEFLAGS_BATCH); + pages = kpageflags_read(buf, index, batch); + if (pages == 0) break; - if (n < 0) { - perror(PROC_KPAGEFLAGS); - exit(EXIT_FAILURE); - } - if (n % KPF_BYTES != 0) - fatal("partial read: %lu bytes\n", n); - n = n / KPF_BYTES; + for (i = 0; i < pages; i++) + add_page(voffset + i, index + i, buf[i]); - for (i = 0; i < n; i++) - add_page(index + i, kpageflags_buf[i]); - - index += batch; - count -= batch; + index += pages; + count -= pages; } } - -#define PAGEMAP_BATCH 4096 -static unsigned long task_pfn(unsigned long pgoff) +#define PAGEMAP_BATCH (64 << 10) +static void walk_vma(unsigned long index, unsigned long count) { - static uint64_t buf[PAGEMAP_BATCH]; - static unsigned long start; - static long count; - uint64_t pfn; + uint64_t buf[PAGEMAP_BATCH]; + unsigned long batch; + unsigned long pages; + unsigned long pfn; + unsigned long i; - if (pgoff < start || pgoff >= start + count) { - if (lseek64(pagemap_fd, - (uint64_t)pgoff * PM_ENTRY_BYTES, - SEEK_SET) < 0) { - perror("pagemap seek"); - exit(EXIT_FAILURE); - } - count = read(pagemap_fd, buf, sizeof(buf)); - if (count == 0) - return 0; - if (count < 0) { - perror("pagemap read"); - exit(EXIT_FAILURE); - } - if (count % PM_ENTRY_BYTES) { - fatal("pagemap read not aligned.\n"); - exit(EXIT_FAILURE); - } - count /= PM_ENTRY_BYTES; - start = pgoff; - } + while (count) { + batch = min_t(unsigned long, count, PAGEMAP_BATCH); + pages = pagemap_read(buf, index, batch); + if (pages == 0) + break; - pfn = buf[pgoff - start]; - if (pfn & PM_PRESENT) - pfn = PM_PFRAME(pfn); - else - pfn = 0; + for (i = 0; i < pages; i++) { + pfn = pagemap_pfn(buf[i]); + if (pfn) + walk_pfn(index + i, pfn, 1); + } - return pfn; + index += pages; + count -= pages; + } } static void walk_task(unsigned long index, unsigned long count) { - int i = 0; const unsigned long end = index + count; + unsigned long start; + int i = 0; while (index < end) { @@ -501,15 +617,11 @@ static void walk_task(unsigned long index, unsigned long count) if (pg_start[i] >= end) return; - voffset = max_t(unsigned long, pg_start[i], index); - index = min_t(unsigned long, pg_end[i], end); + start = max_t(unsigned long, pg_start[i], index); + index = min_t(unsigned long, pg_end[i], end); - assert(voffset < index); - for (; voffset < index; voffset++) { - unsigned long pfn = task_pfn(voffset); - if (pfn) - walk_pfn(pfn, 1); - } + assert(start < index); + walk_vma(start, index - start); } } @@ -527,18 +639,14 @@ static void walk_addr_ranges(void) { int i; - kpageflags_fd = open(PROC_KPAGEFLAGS, O_RDONLY); - if (kpageflags_fd < 0) { - perror(PROC_KPAGEFLAGS); - exit(EXIT_FAILURE); - } + kpageflags_fd = checked_open(PROC_KPAGEFLAGS, O_RDONLY); if (!nr_addr_ranges) add_addr_range(0, ULONG_MAX); for (i = 0; i < nr_addr_ranges; i++) if (!opt_pid) - walk_pfn(opt_offset[i], opt_size[i]); + walk_pfn(0, opt_offset[i], opt_size[i]); else walk_task(opt_offset[i], opt_size[i]); @@ -575,6 +683,8 @@ static void usage(void) " -l|--list Show page details in ranges\n" " -L|--list-each Show page details one by one\n" " -N|--no-summary Don't show summay info\n" +" -X|--hwpoison hwpoison pages\n" +" -x|--unpoison unpoison pages\n" " -h|--help Show this usage message\n" "addr-spec:\n" " N one page at offset N (unit: pages)\n" @@ -624,11 +734,7 @@ static void parse_pid(const char *str) opt_pid = parse_number(str); sprintf(buf, "/proc/%d/pagemap", opt_pid); - pagemap_fd = open(buf, O_RDONLY); - if (pagemap_fd < 0) { - perror(buf); - exit(EXIT_FAILURE); - } + pagemap_fd = checked_open(buf, O_RDONLY); sprintf(buf, "/proc/%d/maps", opt_pid); file = fopen(buf, "r"); @@ -788,6 +894,8 @@ static struct option opts[] = { { "list" , 0, NULL, 'l' }, { "list-each" , 0, NULL, 'L' }, { "no-summary", 0, NULL, 'N' }, + { "hwpoison" , 0, NULL, 'X' }, + { "unpoison" , 0, NULL, 'x' }, { "help" , 0, NULL, 'h' }, { NULL , 0, NULL, 0 } }; @@ -799,7 +907,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) page_size = getpagesize(); while ((c = getopt_long(argc, argv, - "rp:f:a:b:lLNh", opts, NULL)) != -1) { + "rp:f:a:b:lLNXxh", opts, NULL)) != -1) { switch (c) { case 'r': opt_raw = 1; @@ -825,6 +933,14 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) case 'N': opt_no_summary = 1; break; + case 'X': + opt_hwpoison = 1; + prepare_hwpoison_fd(); + break; + case 'x': + opt_unpoison = 1; + prepare_hwpoison_fd(); + break; case 'h': usage(); exit(0); @@ -844,7 +960,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) walk_addr_ranges(); if (opt_list == 1) - show_page_range(0, 0); /* drain the buffer */ + show_page_range(0, 0, 0); /* drain the buffer */ if (opt_no_summary) return 0; diff --git a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt index 600a304a828c..df09b9650a81 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt @@ -57,7 +57,9 @@ There are three components to pagemap: 16. COMPOUND_TAIL 16. HUGE 18. UNEVICTABLE + 19. HWPOISON 20. NOPAGE + 21. KSM Short descriptions to the page flags: @@ -86,9 +88,15 @@ Short descriptions to the page flags: 17. HUGE this is an integral part of a HugeTLB page +19. HWPOISON + hardware detected memory corruption on this page: don't touch the data! + 20. NOPAGE no page frame exists at the requested address +21. KSM + identical memory pages dynamically shared between one or more processes + [IO related page flags] 1. ERROR IO error occurred 3. UPTODATE page has up-to-date data |