Re: [PATCH] mm/memory-failure: Fix return wrong value when isolate page fail

From: HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)
Date: Sun Aug 30 2020 - 18:28:04 EST


On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 03:44:18PM -0400, Qian Cai wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 04:10:53PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> > When we isolate page fail, we should not return 0, because we do not
> > set page HWPoison on any page.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This seems solve the problem for me that madvise(MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE) will run
> into ENOMEM eventually:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200811220643.GB39857@xxxxxx/
>
> Reviewed-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>

Thank you very much, both of you!

Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx>

> > ---
> > mm/memory-failure.c | 1 +
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
> > index 696505f56910..4eb3c42ffe35 100644
> > --- a/mm/memory-failure.c
> > +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
> > @@ -1850,6 +1850,7 @@ static int __soft_offline_page(struct page *page)
> > } else {
> > pr_info("soft offline: %#lx: %s isolation failed: %d, page count %d, type %lx (%pGp)\n",
> > pfn, msg_page[huge], ret, page_count(page), page->flags, &page->flags);
> > + ret = -EBUSY;
> > }
> > return ret;
> > }
> > --
> > 2.11.0
> >
> >
>