Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] mm/rmap: convert page -> folio for hwpoison checks

From: David Hildenbrand (Arm)

Date: Fri Jul 10 2026 - 08:22:17 EST


On 7/10/26 07:59, Dev Jain wrote:
> try_to_unmap() receives hugetlb folios only from the hwpoison path.
> hugetlb_update_hwpoison() sets the hugetlb folio's head-page
> hwpoison bit, and page_vma_mapped_walk() reports the hugetlb mapping at
> the head PFN, so the previous PageHWPoison(subpage) check happened to
> work for hugetlb.
>
> For non-hugetlb folios, unmap_poisoned_folio() currently rejects large
> folios before calling try_to_unmap(). Hence it is always the case that
> if try_to_unmap_one() handles an hwpoisoned folio, then the head page is
> marked with the poison bit.
>
> Therefore, convert the poisoned subpage checks to folio_test_hwpoison().
>
> No functional change intended, except that, while at it,
> convert VM_BUG_* to VM_WARN_*.
>
> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/rmap.c | 13 +++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
> index 9939400e77c79..dbb077f8443e3 100644
> --- a/mm/rmap.c
> +++ b/mm/rmap.c
> @@ -2122,10 +2122,11 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct folio *folio, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> bool anon = folio_test_anon(folio);
>
> /*
> - * The try_to_unmap() is only passed a hugetlb page
> - * in the case where the hugetlb page is poisoned.
> + * The try_to_unmap() is only passed a hugetlb folio
> + * in the case where the hugetlb folio contains a
> + * poisoned page.
> */
> - VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHWPoison(subpage), subpage);
> + VM_WARN_ON_FOLIO(!folio_test_hwpoison(folio), folio);
> /*
> * huge_pmd_unshare may unmap an entire PMD page.
> * There is no way of knowing exactly which PMDs may
> @@ -2204,7 +2205,11 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct folio *folio, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> /* Update high watermark before we lower rss */
> update_hiwater_rss(mm);
>
> - if (PageHWPoison(subpage) && (flags & TTU_HWPOISON)) {
> + /*
> + * With TTU_HWPOISON, we only expect small folios or hugetlb
> + * folios here for now.
> + */

Is this comment helpful given that you change that in patch #2, where you forget
to update the comment? :)

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Cheers,

David