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mm: soft-offline: close the race against page allocation

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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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Naoya Horiguchi 2018-08-23 17:00:42 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 6bc9b56433
commit d4ae9916ea
5 changed files with 57 additions and 16 deletions
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include/linux/page-flags.h
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@ -369,8 +369,13 @@ PAGEFLAG_FALSE(Uncached)
PAGEFLAG(HWPoison, hwpoison, PF_ANY)
TESTSCFLAG(HWPoison, hwpoison, PF_ANY)
#define __PG_HWPOISON (1UL << PG_hwpoison)
extern bool set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page(struct page *page);
#else
PAGEFLAG_FALSE(HWPoison)
static inline bool set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page(struct page *page)
{
return 0;
}
#define __PG_HWPOISON 0
#endif