Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] mm: soft-offline: fix race against page allocation

[Mike Kravetz]

On 08/21/2018 06:37 PM, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 03:43:34PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 14:32:30 +0900 Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I've updated the patchset based on feedbacks:
>>>
>>> - updated comments (from Andrew),
>>> - moved calling set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page() from mm/migrate.c to mm/memory-failure.c,
>>>   which is necessary to check the return code of set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page(),
>>> - lkp bot reported a build error when only 1/2 is applied.
>>>
>>>   >    mm/memory-failure.c: In function 'soft_offline_huge_page':
>>>   > >> mm/memory-failure.c:1610:8: error: implicit declaration of function
>>>   > 'set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page'; did you mean 'is_free_buddy_page'?
>>>   > [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
>>>   >        if (set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page(page))
>>>   >            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>   >            is_free_buddy_page
>>>   >    cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
>>>
>>>   set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page() is defined in 2/2, so we can't use it
>>>   in 1/2. Simply doing s/set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page/!TestSetPageHWPoison/
>>>   will fix this.
>>>
>>> v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/12/968
>>>
>>
>> Quite a bit of discussion on these two, but no actual acks or
>> review-by's?
> 
> Really sorry for late response.
> Xishi provided feedback on previous version, but no final ack/reviewed-by.
> This fix should work on the reported issue, but rewriting soft-offlining
> without PageHWPoison flag would be the better fix (no actual patch yet.)
> I'm not sure this patch should go to mainline immediately.

FWIW - The 'migration of huge PMD shared pages' issue I am working was
originally triggered via soft-offline.  While working the issue, I tried
to exercise huge page soft-offline really hard to recreate the issue and
validate a fix.  However, I was more likely to hit the soft-offline race(s)
your patches address.  Therefore, I applied your patches to focus my testing
and validation on the migration of huge PMD shared pages issue.  That is sort
of a Tested-by :).

Just wanted to point out that it was pretty easy to hit this issue.  It
was easier than the issue I am working.  And, the issue I am trying to
address was seen in a real customer environment.  So, I would not be
surprised to see this issue in real customer environments as well.

If you (or others) think we should go forward with these patches, I can
spend some time doing a review.  Already did a 'quick look' some time back.
-- 
Mike Kravetz