Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] selftests/mm: add tests for HWPOISON hugetlbfs read

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Thu Jan 11 2024 - 13:04:39 EST


On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 09:51:47AM -0800, Sidhartha Kumar wrote:
> On 1/11/24 9:34 AM, Jiaqi Yan wrote:
> > > - if (!folio_test_has_hwpoisoned(folio))
> > > + if (!folio_test_hwpoison(folio))
> >
> > Sidhartha, just curious why this change is needed? Does
> > PageHasHWPoisoned change after commit
> > "a08c7193e4f18dc8508f2d07d0de2c5b94cb39a3"?
>
> No its not an issue PageHasHWPoisoned(), the original code is testing for
> the wrong flag and I realized that has_hwpoison and hwpoison are two
> different flags. The memory-failure code calls folio_test_set_hwpoison() to
> set the hwpoison flag and does not set the has_hwpoison flag. When
> debugging, I realized this if statement was never true despite the code
> hitting folio_test_set_hwpoison(). Now we are testing the correct flag.
>
> From page-flags.h
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE
> PG_hwpoison, /* hardware poisoned page. Don't touch */
> #endif
>
> folio_test_hwpoison() checks this flag ^^^
>
> /* At least one page in this folio has the hwpoison flag set */
> PG_has_hwpoisoned = PG_error,
>
> while folio_test_has_hwpoisoned() checks this flag ^^^

So what you're saying is that hugetlb behaves differently from THP
with how memory-failure sets the flags?