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| author | Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> | 2015-08-07 01:47:08 +0300 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-08-07 04:39:42 +0300 |
| commit | f4c18e6f7b5bbb5b528b3334115806b0d76f50f9 (patch) | |
| tree | 08e934ca7a74761a3d88ef6c494b93284c918b0c /include/linux/page-flags.h | |
| parent | 98ed2b0052e68420f1bad6c81e3f2600d25023e7 (diff) | |
| download | linux-f4c18e6f7b5bbb5b528b3334115806b0d76f50f9.tar.xz | |
mm: check __PG_HWPOISON separately from PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_*
The race condition addressed in commit add05cecef80 ("mm: soft-offline:
don't free target page in successful page migration") was not closed
completely, because that can happen not only for soft-offline, but also
for hard-offline. Consider that a slab page is about to be freed into
buddy pool, and then an uncorrected memory error hits the page just
after entering __free_one_page(), then VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page->flags &
PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP) is triggered, despite the fact that it's not
necessary because the data on the affected page is not consumed.
To solve it, this patch drops __PG_HWPOISON from page flag checks at
allocation/free time. I think it's justified because __PG_HWPOISON
flags is defined to prevent the page from being reused, and setting it
outside the page's alloc-free cycle is a designed behavior (not a bug.)
For recent months, I was annoyed about BUG_ON when soft-offlined page
remains on lru cache list for a while, which is avoided by calling
put_page() instead of putback_lru_page() in page migration's success
path. This means that this patch reverts a major change from commit
add05cecef80 about the new refcounting rule of soft-offlined pages, so
"reuse window" revives. This will be closed by a subsequent patch.
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Dean Nelson <dnelson@redhat.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/page-flags.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/page-flags.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h index f34e040b34e9..41c93844fb1d 100644 --- a/include/linux/page-flags.h +++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h @@ -631,15 +631,19 @@ static inline void ClearPageSlabPfmemalloc(struct page *page) 1 << PG_private | 1 << PG_private_2 | \ 1 << PG_writeback | 1 << PG_reserved | \ 1 << PG_slab | 1 << PG_swapcache | 1 << PG_active | \ - 1 << PG_unevictable | __PG_MLOCKED | __PG_HWPOISON | \ + 1 << PG_unevictable | __PG_MLOCKED | \ __PG_COMPOUND_LOCK) /* * Flags checked when a page is prepped for return by the page allocator. - * Pages being prepped should not have any flags set. It they are set, + * Pages being prepped should not have these flags set. It they are set, * there has been a kernel bug or struct page corruption. + * + * __PG_HWPOISON is exceptional because it needs to be kept beyond page's + * alloc-free cycle to prevent from reusing the page. */ -#define PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP ((1 << NR_PAGEFLAGS) - 1) +#define PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP \ + (((1 << NR_PAGEFLAGS) - 1) & ~__PG_HWPOISON) #define PAGE_FLAGS_PRIVATE \ (1 << PG_private | 1 << PG_private_2) |