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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Dean Nelson <dnelson@redhat.com>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/4] mm/memory-failure: give up error handling for non-tail-refcounted thp
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 04:33:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150716023307.GF1747@two.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1437010894-10262-4-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>

> @@ -909,6 +909,15 @@ int get_hwpoison_page(struct page *page)
>  	 * directly for tail pages.
>  	 */
>  	if (PageTransHuge(head)) {
> +		/*
> +		 * Non anonymous thp exists only in allocation/free time. We
> +		 * can't handle such a case correctly, so let's give it up.
> +		 * This should be better than triggering BUG_ON when kernel
> +		 * tries to touch a "partially handled" page.
> +		 */
> +		if (!PageAnon(head))
> +			return 0;

Please print a message for this case. In the future there will be
likely more non anonymous THP pages from Kirill's large page cache work
(so eventually we'll need it)

-Andi

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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Dean Nelson <dnelson@redhat.com>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/4] mm/memory-failure: give up error handling for non-tail-refcounted thp
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 04:33:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150716023307.GF1747@two.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1437010894-10262-4-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>

> @@ -909,6 +909,15 @@ int get_hwpoison_page(struct page *page)
>  	 * directly for tail pages.
>  	 */
>  	if (PageTransHuge(head)) {
> +		/*
> +		 * Non anonymous thp exists only in allocation/free time. We
> +		 * can't handle such a case correctly, so let's give it up.
> +		 * This should be better than triggering BUG_ON when kernel
> +		 * tries to touch a "partially handled" page.
> +		 */
> +		if (!PageAnon(head))
> +			return 0;

Please print a message for this case. In the future there will be
likely more non anonymous THP pages from Kirill's large page cache work
(so eventually we'll need it)

-Andi


  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-16  2:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-16  1:41 [PATCH v1 0/4] hwpoison: fixes on v4.2-rc2 Naoya Horiguchi
2015-07-16  1:41 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2015-07-16  1:41 ` [PATCH v1 2/4] mm/memory-failure: fix race in counting num_poisoned_pages Naoya Horiguchi
2015-07-16  1:41   ` Naoya Horiguchi
2015-07-16  1:41 ` [PATCH v1 1/4] mm/memory-failure: unlock_page before put_page Naoya Horiguchi
2015-07-16  1:41   ` Naoya Horiguchi
2015-07-16  1:41 ` [PATCH v1 4/4] mm/memory-failure: check __PG_HWPOISON separately from PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_* Naoya Horiguchi
2015-07-16  1:41   ` Naoya Horiguchi
2015-07-23 20:37   ` Andrew Morton
2015-07-23 20:37     ` Andrew Morton
2015-07-23 23:13     ` Naoya Horiguchi
2015-07-23 23:13       ` Naoya Horiguchi
2015-07-16  1:41 ` [PATCH v1 3/4] mm/memory-failure: give up error handling for non-tail-refcounted thp Naoya Horiguchi
2015-07-16  1:41   ` Naoya Horiguchi
2015-07-16  2:33   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2015-07-16  2:33     ` Andi Kleen
2015-07-16  2:41     ` Naoya Horiguchi
2015-07-16  2:41       ` Naoya Horiguchi

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