Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] mm/rmap: convert page -> folio for hwpoison checks
From: Dev Jain
Date: Fri Jul 10 2026 - 09:16:50 EST
On 10/07/26 5:52 pm, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> On 7/10/26 07:59, Dev Jain wrote:
>> try_to_unmap() receives hugetlb folios only from the hwpoison path.
>> hugetlb_update_hwpoison() sets the hugetlb folio's head-page
>> hwpoison bit, and page_vma_mapped_walk() reports the hugetlb mapping at
>> the head PFN, so the previous PageHWPoison(subpage) check happened to
>> work for hugetlb.
>>
>> For non-hugetlb folios, unmap_poisoned_folio() currently rejects large
>> folios before calling try_to_unmap(). Hence it is always the case that
>> if try_to_unmap_one() handles an hwpoisoned folio, then the head page is
>> marked with the poison bit.
>>
>> Therefore, convert the poisoned subpage checks to folio_test_hwpoison().
>>
>> No functional change intended, except that, while at it,
>> convert VM_BUG_* to VM_WARN_*.
>>
>> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@xxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> mm/rmap.c | 13 +++++++++----
>> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
>> index 9939400e77c79..dbb077f8443e3 100644
>> --- a/mm/rmap.c
>> +++ b/mm/rmap.c
>> @@ -2122,10 +2122,11 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct folio *folio, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>> bool anon = folio_test_anon(folio);
>>
>> /*
>> - * The try_to_unmap() is only passed a hugetlb page
>> - * in the case where the hugetlb page is poisoned.
>> + * The try_to_unmap() is only passed a hugetlb folio
>> + * in the case where the hugetlb folio contains a
>> + * poisoned page.
>> */
>> - VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHWPoison(subpage), subpage);
>> + VM_WARN_ON_FOLIO(!folio_test_hwpoison(folio), folio);
>> /*
>> * huge_pmd_unshare may unmap an entire PMD page.
>> * There is no way of knowing exactly which PMDs may
>> @@ -2204,7 +2205,11 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct folio *folio, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>> /* Update high watermark before we lower rss */
>> update_hiwater_rss(mm);
>>
>> - if (PageHWPoison(subpage) && (flags & TTU_HWPOISON)) {
>> + /*
>> + * With TTU_HWPOISON, we only expect small folios or hugetlb
>> + * folios here for now.
>> + */
>
> Is this comment helpful given that you change that in patch #2, where you forget
> to update the comment? :)
Nice spot, let me update this comment in patch 2.
>