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Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Uncharge poisoned pages

From Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Uncharge poisoned pages
Date 2017-04-27 23:00 +0200
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Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> writes:

> On Tue 25-04-17 16:27:51, Laurent Dufour wrote:
>> When page are poisoned, they should be uncharged from the root memory
>> cgroup.
>> 
>> This is required to avoid a BUG raised when the page is onlined back:
>> BUG: Bad page state in process mem-on-off-test  pfn:7ae3b
>> page:f000000001eb8ec0 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping:          (null)
>> index:0x1
>> flags: 0x3ffff800200000(hwpoison)
>
> My knowledge of memory poisoning is very rudimentary but aren't those
> pages supposed to leak and never come back? In other words isn't the
> hoplug code broken because it should leave them alone?

Yes that would be the right interpretation. If it was really offlined
due to a hardware error the memory will be poisoned and any access
could cause a machine check.

hwpoison has an own "unpoison" option (only used for debugging), which
I think handles this.

-Andi

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[PATCH v2 0/2] BUG raised when onlining HWPoisoned page Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-04-25 16:30 +0200
  [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: skip HWPoisoned pages when onlining pages Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-04-25 16:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: skip HWPoisoned pages when onlining pages Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> - 2017-04-26 04:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: skip HWPoisoned pages when onlining pages Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> - 2017-04-26 05:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: skip HWPoisoned pages when onlining pages Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> - 2017-04-28 05:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: skip HWPoisoned pages when onlining pages Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-04-28 08:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: skip HWPoisoned pages when onlining pages Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-04-28 09:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: skip HWPoisoned pages when onlining pages Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-05-10 09:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: skip HWPoisoned pages when onlining pages Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-04-28 09:00 +0200
  [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Uncharge poisoned pages Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-04-25 16:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Uncharge poisoned pages Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> - 2017-04-26 02:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Uncharge poisoned pages Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> - 2017-04-26 04:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Uncharge poisoned pages Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> - 2017-04-26 05:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Uncharge poisoned pages Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> - 2017-04-26 05:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Uncharge poisoned pages Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> - 2017-04-26 06:50 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Uncharge poisoned pages Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> - 2017-04-26 11:10 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Uncharge poisoned pages Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-04-28 11:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Uncharge poisoned pages Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-04-27 16:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Uncharge poisoned pages Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> - 2017-04-27 23:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Uncharge poisoned pages Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-04-28 08:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Uncharge poisoned pages Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-04-28 09:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Uncharge poisoned pages Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-04-28 11:20 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Uncharge poisoned pages Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-04-28 15:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Uncharge poisoned pages Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-05-02 17:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Uncharge poisoned pages Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-05-02 21:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Uncharge poisoned pages Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-05-03 13:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Uncharge poisoned pages Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> - 2017-05-04 03:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Uncharge poisoned pages Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-05-08 12:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Uncharge poisoned pages Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> - 2017-05-09 03:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Uncharge poisoned pages Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> - 2017-05-08 05:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Uncharge poisoned pages Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-05-09 11:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Uncharge poisoned pages Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> - 2017-05-10 01:10 +0200

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