Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] mm/hwpoison: Fix regressions in memory failure handling

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Fri Feb 28 2025 - 07:37:20 EST


On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 09:51:25AM +0800, Shuai Xue wrote:
> It depends on the forked process which trying to read the poison.

And? Can you try creating more processes and see what happens then?

> IMHO, we should send a SIGBUS signal to the processes running on the CPUs that
> detect a memory error for dirty page, which is the current behavior in the
> memory_failure.

And for all those other processes which do get to see the already
poisoned/clean page, they should continue on their merry way instead of
getting killed by a SIGBUS?

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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