Re: [PATCH v2] mm: hwpoison: disable memory error handling on 1GB hugepage

From: Mike Kravetz
Date: Tue Jan 30 2018 - 18:59:58 EST


On 01/29/2018 07:54 PM, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> Recently the following BUG was reported:
>
> Injecting memory failure for pfn 0x3c0000 at process virtual address 0x7fe300000000
> Memory failure: 0x3c0000: recovery action for huge page: Recovered
> BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff8dfcc0003000
> IP: gup_pgd_range+0x1f0/0xc20
> PGD 17ae72067 P4D 17ae72067 PUD 0
> Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
> ...
> CPU: 3 PID: 5467 Comm: hugetlb_1gb Not tainted 4.15.0-rc8-mm1-abc+ #3
> Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.9.3-1.fc25 04/01/2014
>
> You can easily reproduce this by calling madvise(MADV_HWPOISON) twice on
> a 1GB hugepage. This happens because get_user_pages_fast() is not aware
> of a migration entry on pud that was created in the 1st madvise() event.
>
> I think that conversion to pud-aligned migration entry is working,
> but other MM code walking over page table isn't prepared for it.
> We need some time and effort to make all this work properly, so
> this patch avoids the reported bug by just disabling error handling
> for 1GB hugepage.
>
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> // for v1
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> ChangeLog v1 -> v2:
> - add comment about what we need to support hwpoision for pud-sized hugetlb
> - use "page size > PMD_SIZE" condition instead of hstate_is_gigantic()
> ---
> include/linux/mm.h | 1 +
> mm/memory-failure.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git v4.15-rc8-mmotm-2018-01-18-16-31/include/linux/mm.h v4.15-rc8-mmotm-2018-01-18-16-31_patched/include/linux/mm.h
> index 63f7ba1..6b3df81 100644
> --- v4.15-rc8-mmotm-2018-01-18-16-31/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ v4.15-rc8-mmotm-2018-01-18-16-31_patched/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -2607,6 +2607,7 @@ enum mf_action_page_type {
> MF_MSG_POISONED_HUGE,
> MF_MSG_HUGE,
> MF_MSG_FREE_HUGE,
> + MF_MSG_NON_PMD_HUGE,
> MF_MSG_UNMAP_FAILED,
> MF_MSG_DIRTY_SWAPCACHE,
> MF_MSG_CLEAN_SWAPCACHE,
> diff --git v4.15-rc8-mmotm-2018-01-18-16-31/mm/memory-failure.c v4.15-rc8-mmotm-2018-01-18-16-31_patched/mm/memory-failure.c
> index d530ac1..264e020 100644
> --- v4.15-rc8-mmotm-2018-01-18-16-31/mm/memory-failure.c
> +++ v4.15-rc8-mmotm-2018-01-18-16-31_patched/mm/memory-failure.c
> @@ -508,6 +508,7 @@ static const char * const action_page_types[] = {
> [MF_MSG_POISONED_HUGE] = "huge page already hardware poisoned",
> [MF_MSG_HUGE] = "huge page",
> [MF_MSG_FREE_HUGE] = "free huge page",
> + [MF_MSG_NON_PMD_HUGE] = "non-pmd-sized huge page",
> [MF_MSG_UNMAP_FAILED] = "unmapping failed page",
> [MF_MSG_DIRTY_SWAPCACHE] = "dirty swapcache page",
> [MF_MSG_CLEAN_SWAPCACHE] = "clean swapcache page",
> @@ -1090,6 +1091,21 @@ static int memory_failure_hugetlb(unsigned long pfn, int trapno, int flags)
> return 0;
> }
>
> + /*
> + * TODO: hwpoison for pud-sized hugetlb doesn't work right now, so
> + * simply disable it. In order to make it work properly, we need
> + * make sure that:
> + * - conversion of a pud that maps an error hugetlb into hwpoison
> + * entry properly works, and
> + * - other mm code walking over page table is aware of pud-aligned
> + * hwpoison entries.
> + */
> + if (huge_page_size(page_hstate(head)) > PMD_SIZE) {
> + action_result(pfn, MF_MSG_NON_PMD_HUGE, MF_IGNORED);
> + res = -EBUSY;
> + goto out;
> + }
> +
> if (!hwpoison_user_mappings(p, pfn, trapno, flags, &head)) {
> action_result(pfn, MF_MSG_UNMAP_FAILED, MF_IGNORED);
> res = -EBUSY;
>

Thanks, that does catch all those other huge page sizes.

Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>

It would really be helpful to get some comments from the powerpc folks
as this does seem to impact them most. Perhaps arm64 as well?

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Mike Kravetz