Re: [PATCH v2] mm: clean up hwpoison page cache page in fault path

[Rik van Riel]

On Tue, 2022-02-15 at 12:22 +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 13.02.22 03:37, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > Sometimes the page offlining code can leave behind a hwpoisoned
> > clean
> > page cache page. This can lead to programs being killed over and
> > over
> > and over again as they fault in the hwpoisoned page, get killed,
> > and
> > then get re-spawned by whatever wanted to run them.
> 
> Hi Rik,
> 
> am I correct that you are only talking about soft offlining as
> triggered
> from mm/memory-failure.c, not page offlining as in memory offlining
> mm/memory_hotunplug.c ?

That is correct in that I am talking only about memory-failure.c,
however the code in memory-failure.c has both hard and soft
offlining modes, and I suppose this patch covers both?

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