On 2022/3/8 5:57, Mike Kravetz wrote:
It is possible for poisoned hugetlb pages to reside on the free lists. The huge page allocation routines which dequeue entries from the free lists make a point of avoiding poisoned pages. There is no such check and avoidance in the demote code path.
If a hugetlb page on the is on a free list, poison will only be set in the head page rather then the page with the actual error. If such a page is demoted, then the poison flag may follow the wrong page. A page without error could have poison set, and a page with poison could not have the flag set.
Check for poison before attempting to demote a hugetlb page. Also, return -EBUSY to the caller if only poisoned pages are on the free list.
Fixes: 8531fc6f52f5 ("hugetlb: add hugetlb demote page support") Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz mike.kravetz@oracle.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
mm/hugetlb.c | 17 ++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index b34f50156f7e..f8ca7cca3c1a 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -3475,7 +3475,6 @@ static int demote_pool_huge_page(struct hstate *h, nodemask_t *nodes_allowed) { int nr_nodes, node; struct page *page;
- int rc = 0;
lockdep_assert_held(&hugetlb_lock); @@ -3486,15 +3485,19 @@ static int demote_pool_huge_page(struct hstate *h, nodemask_t *nodes_allowed) } for_each_node_mask_to_free(h, nr_nodes, node, nodes_allowed) {
if (!list_empty(&h->hugepage_freelists[node])) {
page = list_entry(h->hugepage_freelists[node].next,
struct page, lru);
rc = demote_free_huge_page(h, page);
break;
list_for_each_entry(page, &h->hugepage_freelists[node], lru) {
if (PageHWPoison(page))
continue;
return demote_free_huge_page(h, page);
It seems this patch is not ideal. Memory failure can hit the hugetlb page anytime without holding the hugetlb_lock. So the page might become HWPoison just after the check. But this patch should have handled the common case. Many thanks for your work. :)
}
}
- return rc;
- /*
* Only way to get here is if all pages on free lists are poisoned.
* Return -EBUSY so that caller will not retry.
*/
- return -EBUSY;
} #define HSTATE_ATTR_RO(_name) \