Re: [PATCH v1 2/6] mm/hwpoison: remove race consideration

[Ding Hui]

On 2021/6/14 10:12, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> @@ -1956,17 +1938,6 @@ int unpoison_memory(unsigned long pfn)
>   		goto unlock_mutex;
>   	}
>   
> -	/*
> -	 * unpoison_memory() can encounter thp only when the thp is being
> -	 * worked by memory_failure() and the page lock is not held yet.
> -	 * In such case, we yield to memory_failure() and make unpoison fail.
> -	 */
> -	if (!PageHuge(page) && PageTransHuge(page)) {
> -		unpoison_pr_info("Unpoison: Memory failure is now running on %#lx\n",
> -				 pfn, &unpoison_rs);
> -		goto unlock_mutex;
> -	}
> -

if a huge page is in process of alloc or free, HUGETLB_PAGE_DTOR can be 
set after __SetPageHead() or be cleared before __ClearPageHead(), so 
this condition may be true in racy.

Do we need the racy test for this situation?

>   	if (!get_hwpoison_page(p, flags)) {
>   		if (TestClearPageHWPoison(p))
>   			num_poisoned_pages_dec();
--
Thanks,
- Ding Hui