mm: check __PG_HWPOISON separately from PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_*

The race condition addressed in commit add05cecef ("mm: soft-offline:
don't free target page in successful page migration") was not closed
completely, because that can happen not only for soft-offline, but also
for hard-offline.  Consider that a slab page is about to be freed into
buddy pool, and then an uncorrected memory error hits the page just
after entering __free_one_page(), then VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page->flags &
PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP) is triggered, despite the fact that it's not
necessary because the data on the affected page is not consumed.

To solve it, this patch drops __PG_HWPOISON from page flag checks at
allocation/free time.  I think it's justified because __PG_HWPOISON
flags is defined to prevent the page from being reused, and setting it
outside the page's alloc-free cycle is a designed behavior (not a bug.)

For recent months, I was annoyed about BUG_ON when soft-offlined page
remains on lru cache list for a while, which is avoided by calling
put_page() instead of putback_lru_page() in page migration's success
path.  This means that this patch reverts a major change from commit
add05cecef about the new refcounting rule of soft-offlined pages, so
"reuse window" revives.  This will be closed by a subsequent patch.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Dean Nelson <[email protected]>
Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Naoya Horiguchi 2015-08-06 15:47:08 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit f4c18e6f7b
4 changed files with 16 additions and 10 deletions

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@ -950,7 +950,10 @@ out:
list_del(&page->lru);
dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_ISOLATED_ANON +
page_is_file_cache(page));
if (reason != MR_MEMORY_FAILURE)
/* Soft-offlined page shouldn't go through lru cache list */
if (reason == MR_MEMORY_FAILURE)
put_page(page);
else
putback_lru_page(page);
}