mm: check __PG_HWPOISON separately from PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_*
authorNaoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Thu, 6 Aug 2015 22:47:08 +0000 (15:47 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 7 Aug 2015 01:39:42 +0000 (04:39 +0300)
commitf4c18e6f7b5bbb5b528b3334115806b0d76f50f9
tree08e934ca7a74761a3d88ef6c494b93284c918b0c
parent98ed2b0052e68420f1bad6c81e3f2600d25023e7
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>
include/linux/page-flags.h
mm/huge_memory.c
mm/migrate.c
mm/page_alloc.c