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[91.12.99.188]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id v13sm20005354wrt.65.2021.05.05.06.17.53 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 05 May 2021 06:17:54 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/7] mm: rename and move page_is_poisoned() To: Michal Hocko Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Jason Wang , Alexey Dobriyan , Mike Rapoport , "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" , Oscar Salvador , Roman Gushchin , Alex Shi , Steven Price , Mike Kravetz , Aili Yao , Jiri Bohac , "K. Y. Srinivasan" , Haiyang Zhang , Stephen Hemminger , Wei Liu , Naoya Horiguchi , linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org References: <20210429122519.15183-1-david@redhat.com> <20210429122519.15183-4-david@redhat.com> From: David Hildenbrand Organization: Red Hat Message-ID: <0710d8d5-2608-aeed-10c7-50a272604d97@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 5 May 2021 15:17:53 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.8.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org On 05.05.21 15:13, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Thu 29-04-21 14:25:15, David Hildenbrand wrote: >> Commit d3378e86d182 ("mm/gup: check page posion status for coredump.") >> introduced page_is_poisoned(), however, v5 [1] of the patch used >> "page_is_hwpoison()" and something went wrong while upstreaming. Rename the >> function and move it to page-flags.h, from where it can be used in other >> -- kcore -- context. >> >> Move the comment to the place where it belongs and simplify. >> >> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210322193318.377c9ce9@alex-virtual-machine >> >> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand > > I do agree that being explicit about hwpoison is much better. Poisoned > page can be also an unitialized one and I believe this is the reason why > you are bringing that up. I'm bringing it up because I want to reuse that function as state above :) > > But you've made me look at d3378e86d182 and I am wondering whether this > is really a valid patch. First of all it can leak a reference count > AFAICS. Moreover it doesn't really fix anything because the page can be > marked hwpoison right after the check is done. I do not think the race > is feasible to be closed. So shouldn't we rather revert it? I am not sure if we really care about races here that much here? I mean, essentially we are racing with HW breaking asynchronously. Just because we would be synchronizing with SetPageHWPoison() wouldn't mean we can stop HW from breaking. Long story short, this should be good enough for the cases we actually can handle? What am I missing? -- Thanks, David / dhildenb