[PATCH 08/10] HWPOISON, hugetlb: soft offlining for hugepage

From: Naoya Horiguchi
Date: Tue Sep 07 2010 - 21:29:57 EST


This patch extends soft offlining framework to support hugepage.
When memory corrected errors occur repeatedly on a hugepage,
we can choose to stop using it by migrating data onto another hugepage
and disabling the original (maybe half-broken) one.

ChangeLog since v4:
- branch soft_offline_page() for hugepage

ChangeLog since v3:
- remove comment about "ToDo: hugepage soft-offline"

ChangeLog since v2:
- move refcount handling into isolate_lru_page()

ChangeLog since v1:
- add double check in isolating hwpoisoned hugepage
- define free/non-free checker for hugepage
- postpone calling put_page() for hugepage in soft_offline_page()

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory-failure.c | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git v2.6.36-rc2/mm/memory-failure.c v2.6.36-rc2/mm/memory-failure.c
index dfeb8b8..1d0392d 100644
--- v2.6.36-rc2/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ v2.6.36-rc2/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -693,8 +693,6 @@ static int me_swapcache_clean(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn)
* Issues:
* - Error on hugepage is contained in hugepage unit (not in raw page unit.)
* To narrow down kill region to one page, we need to break up pmd.
- * - To support soft-offlining for hugepage, we need to support hugepage
- * migration.
*/
static int me_huge_page(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn)
{
@@ -1220,7 +1218,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(unpoison_memory);
static struct page *new_page(struct page *p, unsigned long private, int **x)
{
int nid = page_to_nid(p);
- return alloc_pages_exact_node(nid, GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, 0);
+ if (PageHuge(p))
+ return alloc_huge_page_node(page_hstate(compound_head(p)),
+ nid);
+ else
+ return alloc_pages_exact_node(nid, GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, 0);
}

/*
@@ -1248,8 +1250,15 @@ static int get_any_page(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn, int flags)
* was free.
*/
set_migratetype_isolate(p);
+ /*
+ * When the target page is a free hugepage, just remove it
+ * from free hugepage list.
+ */
if (!get_page_unless_zero(compound_head(p))) {
- if (is_free_buddy_page(p)) {
+ if (PageHuge(p)) {
+ pr_debug("get_any_page: %#lx free huge page\n", pfn);
+ ret = dequeue_hwpoisoned_huge_page(compound_head(p));
+ } else if (is_free_buddy_page(p)) {
pr_debug("get_any_page: %#lx free buddy page\n", pfn);
/* Set hwpoison bit while page is still isolated */
SetPageHWPoison(p);
@@ -1268,6 +1277,45 @@ static int get_any_page(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn, int flags)
return ret;
}

+static int soft_offline_huge_page(struct page *page, int flags)
+{
+ int ret;
+ unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
+ struct page *hpage = compound_head(page);
+ LIST_HEAD(pagelist);
+
+ ret = get_any_page(page, pfn, flags);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ return ret;
+ if (ret == 0)
+ goto done;
+
+ if (PageHWPoison(hpage)) {
+ put_page(hpage);
+ pr_debug("soft offline: %#lx hugepage already poisoned\n", pfn);
+ return -EBUSY;
+ }
+
+ /* Keep page count to indicate a given hugepage is isolated. */
+
+ list_add(&hpage->lru, &pagelist);
+ ret = migrate_huge_pages(&pagelist, new_page, MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL, 0);
+ if (ret) {
+ pr_debug("soft offline: %#lx: migration failed %d, type %lx\n",
+ pfn, ret, page->flags);
+ if (ret > 0)
+ ret = -EIO;
+ return ret;
+ }
+done:
+ if (!PageHWPoison(hpage))
+ atomic_long_add(1 << compound_order(hpage), &mce_bad_pages);
+ set_page_hwpoison_huge_page(hpage);
+ dequeue_hwpoisoned_huge_page(hpage);
+ /* keep elevated page count for bad page */
+ return ret;
+}
+
/**
* soft_offline_page - Soft offline a page.
* @page: page to offline
@@ -1295,6 +1343,9 @@ int soft_offline_page(struct page *page, int flags)
int ret;
unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);

+ if (PageHuge(page))
+ return soft_offline_huge_page(page, flags);
+
ret = get_any_page(page, pfn, flags);
if (ret < 0)
return ret;
--
1.7.2.2

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