Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm/page_poison: slightly optimize check_poison_mem()

From: Leizhen (ThunderTown)
Date: Wed Aug 21 2024 - 21:35:21 EST




On 2024/8/21 19:28, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 21.08.24 09:53, Zhen Lei wrote:
>> When the debug information needs to be suppressed due to ratelimit,
>> it is unnecessary to determine the end of the corrupted memory.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>   mm/page_poison.c | 7 ++++---
>>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/page_poison.c b/mm/page_poison.c
>> index 3e9037363cf9d85..23fa799214720f1 100644
>> --- a/mm/page_poison.c
>> +++ b/mm/page_poison.c
>> @@ -55,14 +55,15 @@ static void check_poison_mem(struct page *page, unsigned char *mem, size_t bytes
>>       if (!start)
>>           return;
>>   +    if (!__ratelimit(&ratelimit))
>> +        return;
>> +
>>       for (end = mem + bytes - 1; end > start; end--) {
>>           if (*end != PAGE_POISON)
>>               break;
>>       }
>>   -    if (!__ratelimit(&ratelimit))
>> -        return;
>> -    else if (start == end && single_bit_flip(*start, PAGE_POISON))
>> +    if (start == end && single_bit_flip(*start, PAGE_POISON))
>>           pr_err("pagealloc: single bit error\n");
>>       else
>>           pr_err("pagealloc: memory corruption\n");
>
> This way, you will be ratelimiting on every function call, possibly skipping PAGE_POISON checks even if there was no prior corruption detected?
>

No, the previous memchr_inv() does the PAGE_POISON check, determine the start of the corrupted memory. !start means no corruption.

start = memchr_inv(mem, PAGE_POISON, bytes);
if (!start)
return;

+ if (!__ratelimit(&ratelimit))
+ return;

for (end = mem + bytes - 1; end > start; end--) {
if (*end != PAGE_POISON)
break;
}



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Regards,
Zhen Lei