Re: [PATCH v4 1/7] mm,hwpoison: take free pages off the buddy freelists

[HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 10:10:43AM +0200, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> The crux of the matter is that historically we left poisoned pages in the
> buddy system because we have some checks in place when allocating a page
> that a gatekeeper for poisoned pages.  Unfortunately, we do have other
> users (e.g: compaction [1]) that scan buddy freelists and try to get a
> page from there without checking whether the page is HWPoison.
> 
> As I stated already, I think it is fundamentally wrong to keep HWPoison
> pages within the buddy systems, checks in place or not.
> 
> Let us fix this we same way we did for soft_offline [2], and take the page
> off the buddy freelist, so it is completely unreachable.
> 
> Note that this is fairly simple to trigger, as we only need to poison free
> buddy pages (madvise MADV_HWPOISON) and then we need to run some sort of
> memory stress system.
> 
> Just for a matter of reference, I put a dump_page in compaction_alloc to
> trigger for HWPoison patches:
> 
> kernel: page:0000000012b2982b refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x1 pfn:0x1d5db
> kernel: flags: 0xfffffc0800000(hwpoison)
> kernel: raw: 000fffffc0800000 ffffea00007573c8 ffffc90000857de0 0000000000000000
> kernel: raw: 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
> kernel: page dumped because: compaction_alloc
> 
> kernel: CPU: 4 PID: 123 Comm: kcompactd0 Tainted: G            E     5.9.0-rc2-mm1-1-default+ #5
> kernel: Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.10.2-0-g5f4c7b1-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014
> kernel: Call Trace:
> kernel:  dump_stack+0x6d/0x8b
> kernel:  compaction_alloc+0xb2/0xc0
> kernel:  migrate_pages+0x2a6/0x12a0
> kernel:  ? isolate_freepages+0xc80/0xc80
> kernel:  ? __ClearPageMovable+0xb0/0xb0
> kernel:  compact_zone+0x5eb/0x11c0
> kernel:  ? finish_task_switch+0x74/0x300
> kernel:  ? lock_timer_base+0xa8/0x170
> kernel:  proactive_compact_node+0x89/0xf0
> kernel:  ? kcompactd+0x2d0/0x3a0
> kernel:  kcompactd+0x2d0/0x3a0
> kernel:  ? finish_wait+0x80/0x80
> kernel:  ? kcompactd_do_work+0x350/0x350
> kernel:  kthread+0x118/0x130
> kernel:  ? kthread_associate_blkcg+0xa0/0xa0
> kernel:  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
> 
> After that, if e.g: someone faults in the page, that someone will get
> killed unexpectedly.
> 
> While we are at it, I also changed the action result for such cases.
> I think that MF_DELAYED is a bit misleading, because in case we could
> contain the page and take it off the buddy, such a page is not to be used
> again unless it is unpoisoned, so we fixed the situation.
> 
> So unless I am missing something, I strongly think that we should report
> MF_RECOVERED.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190826104144.GA7849@linux/T/#u
> [2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11694847/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>

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