linux.git/mm/memory-failure.c, branch v3.13

mm/memory-failure.c: transfer page count from head page to tail page after split thp

2014-01-02T22:40:30+00:00

Memory failures on thp tail pages cause kernel panic like below:

   mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
   MCE exception done on CPU 7
   BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000058
   IP: [] dequeue_hwpoisoned_huge_page+0x131/0x1e0
   PGD bae42067 PUD ba47d067 PMD 0
   Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
  ...
   CPU: 7 PID: 128 Comm: kworker/7:2 Tainted: G   M       O 3.13.0-rc4-131217-1558-00003-g83b7df08e462 #25
  ...
   Call Trace:
     me_huge_page+0x3e/0x50
     memory_failure+0x4bb/0xc20
     mce_process_work+0x3e/0x70
     process_one_work+0x171/0x420
     worker_thread+0x11b/0x3a0
     ? manage_workers.isra.25+0x2b0/0x2b0
     kthread+0xe4/0x100
     ? kthread_create_on_node+0x190/0x190
     ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
     ? kthread_create_on_node+0x190/0x190
  ...
   RIP   dequeue_hwpoisoned_huge_page+0x131/0x1e0
   CR2: 0000000000000058

The reasoning of this problem is shown below:
 - when we have a memory error on a thp tail page, the memory error
   handler grabs a refcount of the head page to keep the thp under us.
 - Before unmapping the error page from processes, we split the thp,
   where page refcounts of both of head/tail pages don't change.
 - Then we call try_to_unmap() over the error page (which was a tail
   page before). We didn't pin the error page to handle the memory error,
   this error page is freed and removed from LRU list.
 - We never have the error page on LRU list, so the first page state
   check returns "unknown page," then we move to the second check
   with the saved page flag.
 - The saved page flag have PG_tail set, so the second page state check
   returns "hugepage."
 - We call me_huge_page() for freed error page, then we hit the above panic.

The root cause is that we didn't move refcount from the head page to the
tail page after split thp.  So this patch suggests to do this.

This panic was introduced by commit 524fca1e73 ("HWPOISON: fix
misjudgement of page_action() for errors on mlocked pages").  Note that we
did have the same refcount problem before this commit, but it was just
ignored because we had only first page state check which returned "unknown
page." The commit changed the refcount problem from "doesn't work" to
"kernel panic."

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: 	[3.9+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/memory-failure.c: recheck PageHuge() after hugetlb page migrate successfully

2013-12-19T03:04:52+00:00

After a successful hugetlb page migration by soft offline, the source
page will either be freed into hugepage_freelists or buddy(over-commit
page).  If page is in buddy, page_hstate(page) will be NULL.  It will
hit a NULL pointer dereference in dequeue_hwpoisoned_huge_page().

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000058
  IP: [] dequeue_hwpoisoned_huge_page+0x131/0x1d0
  PGD c23762067 PUD c24be2067 PMD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP

So check PageHuge(page) after call migrate_pages() successfully.

Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu 
Tested-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kfifo API type safety

2013-11-15T00:32:23+00:00

This patch enhances the type safety for the kfifo API.  It is now safe
to put const data into a non const FIFO and the API will now generate a
compiler warning when reading from the fifo where the destination
address is pointing to a const variable.

As a side effect the kfifo_put() does now expect the value of an element
instead a pointer to the element.  This was suggested Russell King.  It
make the handling of the kfifo_put easier since there is no need to
create a helper variable for getting the address of a pointer or to pass
integers of different sizes.

IMHO the API break is okay, since there are currently only six users of
kfifo_put().

The code is also cleaner by kicking out the "if (0)" expressions.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Hauke Mehrtens 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/memory-failure.c: move set_migratetype_isolate() outside get_any_page()

2013-11-13T03:09:04+00:00

Chen Gong pointed out that set/unset_migratetype_isolate() was done in
different functions in mm/memory-failure.c, which makes the code less
readable/maintainable.  So this patch does it in soft_offline_page().

With this patch, we get to hold lock_memory_hotplug() longer but it's
not a problem because races between memory hotplug and soft offline are
very rare.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Reviewed-by: Chen, Gong 
Acked-by: Andi Kleen 
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/hwpoison: fix false report on 2nd attempt at page recovery

2013-09-30T21:31:02+00:00

If the page is poisoned by software injection w/ MF_COUNT_INCREASED
flag, there is a false report during the 2nd attempt at page recovery
which is not truthful.

This patch fixes it by reporting the first attempt to try free buddy
page recovery if MF_COUNT_INCREASED is set.

Before patch:

[  346.332041] Injecting memory failure at pfn 200010
[  346.332189] MCE 0x200010: free buddy, 2nd try page recovery: Delayed

After patch:

[  297.742600] Injecting memory failure at pfn 200010
[  297.742941] MCE 0x200010: free buddy page recovery: Delayed

Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Acked-by: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/hwpoison: fix test for a transparent huge page

2013-09-30T21:31:02+00:00

PageTransHuge() can't guarantee the page is a transparent huge page
since it returns true for both transparent huge and hugetlbfs pages.

This patch fixes it by checking the page is also !hugetlbfs page.

Before patch:

[  121.571128] Injecting memory failure at pfn 23a200
[  121.571141] MCE 0x23a200: huge page recovery: Delayed
[  140.355100] MCE: Memory failure is now running on 0x23a200

After patch:

[   94.290793] Injecting memory failure at pfn 23a000
[   94.290800] MCE 0x23a000: huge page recovery: Delayed
[  105.722303] MCE: Software-unpoisoned page 0x23a000

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li 
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Acked-by: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2013-09-12T22:01:38+00:00

Pull vfs pile 4 from Al Viro:
 "list_lru pile, mostly"

This came out of Andrew's pile, Al ended up doing the merge work so that
Andrew didn't have to.

Additionally, a few fixes.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (42 commits)
  super: fix for destroy lrus
  list_lru: dynamically adjust node arrays
  shrinker: Kill old ->shrink API.
  shrinker: convert remaining shrinkers to count/scan API
  staging/lustre/libcfs: cleanup linux-mem.h
  staging/lustre/ptlrpc: convert to new shrinker API
  staging/lustre/obdclass: convert lu_object shrinker to count/scan API
  staging/lustre/ldlm: convert to shrinkers to count/scan API
  hugepage: convert huge zero page shrinker to new shrinker API
  i915: bail out earlier when shrinker cannot acquire mutex
  drivers: convert shrinkers to new count/scan API
  fs: convert fs shrinkers to new scan/count API
  xfs: fix dquot isolation hang
  xfs-convert-dquot-cache-lru-to-list_lru-fix
  xfs: convert dquot cache lru to list_lru
  xfs: rework buffer dispose list tracking
  xfs-convert-buftarg-lru-to-generic-code-fix
  xfs: convert buftarg LRU to generic code
  fs: convert inode and dentry shrinking to be node aware
  vmscan: per-node deferred work
  ...

mm/memory-failure.c: fix bug triggered by unpoisoning empty zero page

2013-09-11T22:58:12+00:00

  Injecting memory failure for page 0x19d0 at 0xb77d2000
  MCE 0x19d0: non LRU page recovery: Ignored
  MCE: Software-unpoisoned page 0x19d0
  BUG: Bad page state in process bash  pfn:019d0
  page:f3461a00 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping:  (null) index:0x0
  page flags: 0x40000404(referenced|reserved)
  Modules linked in: nfsd auth_rpcgss i915 nfs_acl nfs lockd video drm_kms_helper drm bnep rfcomm sunrpc bluetooth psmouse parport_pc ppdev lp serio_raw fscache parport gpio_ich lpc_ich mac_hid i2c_algo_bit tpm_tis wmi usb_storage hid_generic usbhid hid e1000e firewire_ohci firewire_core ahci ptp libahci pps_core crc_itu_t
  CPU: 3 PID: 2123 Comm: bash Not tainted 3.11.0-rc6+ #12
  Hardware name: LENOVO 7034DD7/        , BIOS 9HKT47AUS 01//2012
   00000000 00000000 e9625ea0 c15ec49b f3461a00 e9625eb8 c15ea119 c17cbf18
   ef084314 000019d0 f3461a00 e9625ed8 c110dc8a f3461a00 00000001 00000000
   f3461a00 40000404 00000000 e9625ef8 c110dcc1 f3461a00 f3461a00 000019d0
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack+0x41/0x52
    bad_page+0xcf/0xeb
    free_pages_prepare+0x12a/0x140
    free_hot_cold_page+0x21/0x110
    __put_single_page+0x21/0x30
    put_page+0x25/0x40
    unpoison_memory+0x107/0x200
    hwpoison_unpoison+0x20/0x30
    simple_attr_write+0xb6/0xd0
    vfs_write+0xa0/0x1b0
    SyS_write+0x4f/0x90
    sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x22
  Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint

Testcase:

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 

#define PAGES_TO_TEST 1
#define PAGE_SIZE	4096

int main(void)
{
	char *mem;

	mem = mmap(NULL, PAGES_TO_TEST * PAGE_SIZE,
			PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, 0, 0);

	if (madvise(mem, PAGES_TO_TEST * PAGE_SIZE, MADV_HWPOISON) == -1)
		return -1;

	munmap(mem, PAGES_TO_TEST * PAGE_SIZE);

	return 0;
}

There is one page reference count for default empty zero page,
madvise_hwpoison add another one by get_user_pages_fast.  memory_hwpoison
reduce one page reference count since it's a non LRU page.
unpoison_memory release the last page reference count and free empty zero
page to buddy system which is not correct since empty zero page has
PG_reserved flag.  This patch fix it by don't reduce the page reference
count under 1 against empty zero page.

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li 
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/hwpoison: drop forward reference declarations __soft_offline_page()

2013-09-11T22:58:11+00:00

Drop forward reference declarations __soft_offline_page.

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li 
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/hwpoison: don't set migration type twice to avoid holding heavily contend zone->lock

2013-09-11T22:58:09+00:00

Set pageblock migration type will hold zone->lock which is heavy contended
in system to avoid race.  However, soft offline page will set pageblock
migration type twice during get page if the page is in used, not hugetlbfs
page and not on lru list.  There is unnecessary to set the pageblock
migration type and hold heavy contended zone->lock again if the first
round get page have already set the pageblock to right migration type.

The trick here is migration type is MIGRATE_ISOLATE.  There are other two
parts can change MIGRATE_ISOLATE except hwpoison.  One is memory hoplug,
however, we hold lock_memory_hotplug() which avoid race.  The second is
CMA which umovable page allocation requst can't fallback to.  So it's safe
here.

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li 
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds