Re: [RESEND][PATCH v5 3/3] hugetlbfs: add swap entry check infollow_hugetlb_page()

[David Rientjes]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2013, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:

> # I suspended Reviewed and Acked given for the previous version, because
> # it has a non-minor change. If you want to restore it, please let me know.
> -----
> With applying the previous patch "hugetlbfs: stop setting VM_DONTDUMP in
> initializing vma(VM_HUGETLB)" to reenable hugepage coredump, if a memory
> error happens on a hugepage and the affected processes try to access
> the error hugepage, we hit VM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->_count) <= 0)
> in get_page().
> 
> The reason for this bug is that coredump-related code doesn't recognise
> "hugepage hwpoison entry" with which a pmd entry is replaced when a memory
> error occurs on a hugepage.
> In other words, physical address information is stored in different bit layout
> between hugepage hwpoison entry and pmd entry, so follow_hugetlb_page()
> which is called in get_dump_page() returns a wrong page from a given address.
> 
> The expected behavior is like this:
> 
>   absent   is_swap_pte   FOLL_DUMP   Expected behavior
>   -------------------------------------------------------------------
>    true     false         false       hugetlb_fault
>    false    true          false       hugetlb_fault
>    false    false         false       return page
>    true     false         true        skip page (to avoid allocation)
>    false    true          true        hugetlb_fault
>    false    false         true        return page
> 
> With this patch, we can call hugetlb_fault() and take proper actions
> (we wait for migration entries, fail with VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE for
> hwpoisoned entries,) and as the result we can dump all hugepages except
> for hwpoisoned ones.
> 
> ChangeLog v5:
>  - improve comment and description.
> 
> ChangeLog v4:
>  - move is_swap_page() to right place.
> 
> ChangeLog v3:
>  - add comment about using is_swap_pte()
> 
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>

Stable for 2.6.34+?
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/