From: "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
To: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@kernel.org,
muchun.song@linux.dev, osalvador@suse.de, riel@surriel.com,
liam@infradead.org, vbabka@kernel.org, harry@kernel.org,
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linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ryan.roberts@arm.com,
anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] mm/rmap: convert page -> folio for hwpoison checks
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:20:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <amMtRejoVMX2IV2V@lucifer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260713050050.1017741-2-dev.jain@arm.com>
On Mon, Jul 13, 2026 at 05:00:44AM +0000, Dev Jain wrote:
> try_to_unmap() receives hugetlb folios only from the hwpoison path.
> hugetlb_update_hwpoison() sets the hugetlb folio's head-page
> hwpoison bit, and page_vma_mapped_walk() reports the hugetlb mapping at
> the head PFN, so the previous PageHWPoison(subpage) check happened to
> work for hugetlb.
>
> For non-hugetlb folios, unmap_poisoned_folio() currently rejects large
> folios before calling try_to_unmap(). Hence it is always the case that
> if try_to_unmap_one() handles an hwpoisoned folio, then the head page is
> marked with the poison bit.
>
> Therefore, convert the poisoned subpage checks to folio_test_hwpoison().
>
> No functional change intended, except that, while at it,
> convert VM_BUG_* to VM_WARN_*.
>
> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Oops reviewed v2 by mistake. This LGTM so:
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
> ---
> mm/rmap.c | 13 +++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
> index 26166a6b8cb9b..2b74668f356d6 100644
> --- a/mm/rmap.c
> +++ b/mm/rmap.c
> @@ -2122,10 +2122,11 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct folio *folio, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> bool anon = folio_test_anon(folio);
>
> /*
> - * The try_to_unmap() is only passed a hugetlb page
> - * in the case where the hugetlb page is poisoned.
> + * The try_to_unmap() is only passed a hugetlb folio
> + * in the case where the hugetlb folio contains a
> + * poisoned page.
> */
> - VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHWPoison(subpage), subpage);
> + VM_WARN_ON_FOLIO(!folio_test_hwpoison(folio), folio);
Thanks for converting this also!
> /*
> * huge_pmd_unshare may unmap an entire PMD page.
> * There is no way of knowing exactly which PMDs may
> @@ -2204,7 +2205,11 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct folio *folio, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> /* Update high watermark before we lower rss */
> update_hiwater_rss(mm);
>
> - if (PageHWPoison(subpage) && (flags & TTU_HWPOISON)) {
> + /*
> + * With TTU_HWPOISON, we only expect small folios or hugetlb
> + * folios here for now.
> + */
> + if (folio_test_hwpoison(folio) && (flags & TTU_HWPOISON)) {
As per v2 discussion, I feel this could be tightened up, maybe something like:
/* unmap_poisoned_folio() only refs order-0 or hugetlb folios */
> pteval = swp_entry_to_pte(make_hwpoison_entry(subpage));
> if (folio_test_hugetlb(folio)) {
> hugetlb_count_sub(folio_nr_pages(folio), mm);
> --
> 2.43.0
>
Cheers, Lorenzo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-24 9:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-13 5:00 [PATCH v3 0/5] mm/rmap: Refactor try_to_unmap_one Dev Jain
2026-07-13 5:00 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] mm/rmap: convert page -> folio for hwpoison checks Dev Jain
2026-07-24 9:20 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) [this message]
2026-07-13 5:00 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] mm/rmap: Add try_to_unmap_hugetlb_one Dev Jain
2026-07-24 10:39 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-07-13 5:00 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] mm/rmap: refactor some code around lazyfree folio unmapping Dev Jain
2026-07-13 5:00 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] mm/rmap: refactor anon folio unmap in try_to_unmap_one Dev Jain
2026-07-13 5:00 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] mm/rmap: add anon folio unmap dispatcher Dev Jain
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