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From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
	Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@meta.com,
	Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/4] mm/memory-failure: classify get_any_page() failures by reason
Date: Tue, 12 May 2026 10:21:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <28b01c14-3d87-4cab-b695-5b9015578785@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260511-ecc_panic-v6-2-183012ba7d4b@debian.org>


>  		}
>  		goto unlock_mutex;
>  	} else if (res < 0) {
> -		if (is_reserved)
> +		/*
> +		 * Promote a stable unhandlable kernel page diagnosed by
> +		 * get_hwpoison_page() to MF_MSG_KERNEL alongside reserved
> +		 * pages; transient lifecycle races stay as MF_MSG_GET_HWPOISON.
> +		 */
> +		if (is_reserved || gp_status == MF_GET_PAGE_UNHANDLABLE)
>  			res = action_result(pfn, MF_MSG_KERNEL, MF_IGNORED);


It's all a bit of a mess. get_hwpoison_page() should just indicate that a page
is unhandable if it is PG_reserved?

Why can't we just return a special error code from  get_hwpoison_page()? We ahve
plenty of errno values to chose from.

-- 
Cheers,

David

  reply	other threads:[~2026-05-12  8:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-11 15:38 [PATCH v6 0/4] mm/memory-failure: add panic option for unrecoverable pages Breno Leitao
2026-05-11 15:38 ` [PATCH v6 1/4] mm/memory-failure: report MF_MSG_KERNEL for reserved pages Breno Leitao
2026-05-12  8:17   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-05-12 12:48     ` Lance Yang
2026-05-12 13:04     ` Breno Leitao
2026-05-12 17:58     ` jane.chu
2026-05-11 15:38 ` [PATCH v6 2/4] mm/memory-failure: classify get_any_page() failures by reason Breno Leitao
2026-05-12  8:21   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-05-12 13:33     ` Breno Leitao
2026-05-11 15:38 ` [PATCH v6 3/4] mm/memory-failure: add panic option for unrecoverable pages Breno Leitao
2026-05-12  8:22   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-05-12 13:05     ` Breno Leitao
2026-05-11 15:38 ` [PATCH v6 4/4] Documentation: document panic_on_unrecoverable_memory_failure sysctl Breno Leitao

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