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Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: skip HWPoisoned pages when onlining pages

From Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: skip HWPoisoned pages when onlining pages
Date 2017-04-26 05:30 +0200
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On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 12:10:15PM +1000, Balbir Singh wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-04-25 at 16:27 +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> > The commit b023f46813cd ("memory-hotplug: skip HWPoisoned page when
> > offlining pages") skip the HWPoisoned pages when offlining pages, but
> > this should be skipped when onlining the pages too.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > ---
> >  mm/memory_hotplug.c | 4 ++++
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> > index 6fa7208bcd56..741ddb50e7d2 100644
> > --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> > +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> > @@ -942,6 +942,10 @@ static int online_pages_range(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
> >  	if (PageReserved(pfn_to_page(start_pfn)))
> >  		for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
> >  			page = pfn_to_page(start_pfn + i);
> > +			if (PageHWPoison(page)) {
> > +				ClearPageReserved(page);
>
> Why do we clear page reserved? Also if the page is marked PageHWPoison, it
> was never offlined to begin with? Or do you expect this to be set on newly
> hotplugged memory? Also don't we need to skip the entire pageblock?

If I read correctly, to "skip HWPoiosned page" in commit b023f46813cd means
that we skip the page status check for hwpoisoned pages *not* to prevent
memory offlining for memblocks with hwpoisoned pages. That means that
hwpoisoned pages can be offlined.

And another reason to clear PageReserved is that we could reuse the
hwpoisoned page after onlining back with replacing the broken DIMM.
In this usecase, we first do unpoisoning to clear PageHWPoison,
but it doesn't work if PageReserved is set. My simple testing shows
the BUG below in unpoisoning (without the ClearPageReserved):

  Unpoison: Software-unpoisoned page 0x18000
  BUG: Bad page state in process page-types  pfn:18000
  page:ffffda5440600000 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping:          (null) index:0x70006b599
  flags: 0x1fffc00004081a(error|uptodate|dirty|reserved|swapbacked)
  raw: 001fffc00004081a 0000000000000000 000000070006b599 00000000ffffffff
  raw: dead000000000100 dead000000000200 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
  page dumped because: PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE flag(s) set
  bad because of flags: 0x800(reserved)

Thanks,
Naoya Horiguchi

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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
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        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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