[Question ]: Avoid kernel panic when killing an application if happen RAS page table error

[gengdongjiu@huawei.com (gengdongjiu)]

On 2017/12/16 3:35, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> It's going to be complicated to do, I don't think its worth the effort.
> We can find a bit in struct page that we guarantee will only be set if
> this is allocated as a pagetable.  Bit 1 of the third union is currently
> available (compound_head is a pointer if bit 0 is set, so nothing is
> using bit 1).  We can put a pointer to the mm_struct in the same word.
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> Finding all the allocated pages will be the tricky bit.  We could put a
> list_head into struct page; perhaps in the same spot as page_deferred_list
> for tail pages.  Then we can link all the pagetables belonging to
> this mm together and tear them all down if any of them get an error.
> They'll repopulate on demand.  It won't be quick or scalable, but when
> the alternative is death, it looks relatively attractive.
Thanks for the comments, I will check it in detailed and investigate whether it is worth to do for it.
Thanks!

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