From: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
To: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.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>,
Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
"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,
Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@meta.com
Subject: [PATCH v7 1/6] mm/memory-failure: drop dead error_states[] entry for reserved pages
Date: Wed, 13 May 2026 08:39:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260513-ecc_panic-v7-1-be2e578e61da@debian.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260513-ecc_panic-v7-0-be2e578e61da@debian.org>
The first entry of error_states[],
{ reserved, reserved, MF_MSG_KERNEL, me_kernel },
is unreachable. identify_page_state() has two callers, and neither
one can dispatch a PG_reserved page to me_kernel():
* memory_failure() reaches identify_page_state() only after
get_hwpoison_page() returned 1. get_any_page() reaches that
return only via __get_hwpoison_page(), which gates the refcount
on HWPoisonHandlable(). HWPoisonHandlable() rejects PG_reserved
pages, so they fail with -EBUSY/-EIO long before
identify_page_state() runs.
* try_memory_failure_hugetlb() reaches identify_page_state() on
the MF_HUGETLB_IN_USED branch, but the page is necessarily a
hugetlb folio there. The first table entry that matches a
hugetlb folio is { head, head, MF_MSG_HUGE, me_huge_page }, so
they dispatch to me_huge_page() before the (now-removed)
reserved entry would have matched, regardless of whether
PG_reserved happens to be set on the head page.
me_kernel() never executes and the entry exists only to be matched
against by code that cannot see it.
Drop the entry, the me_kernel() helper, and the now-unused
"reserved" macro. Leave the MF_MSG_KERNEL enum value in place: it
remains part of the tracepoint and pr_err() string tables, and
follow-on work to classify unrecoverable kernel pages can reuse it
without churning the user-visible enum.
No functional change.
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
---
mm/memory-failure.c | 14 --------------
1 file changed, 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index 866c4428ac7ef..49bcfbd04d213 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -992,17 +992,6 @@ static bool has_extra_refcount(struct page_state *ps, struct page *p,
return false;
}
-/*
- * Error hit kernel page.
- * Do nothing, try to be lucky and not touch this instead. For a few cases we
- * could be more sophisticated.
- */
-static int me_kernel(struct page_state *ps, struct page *p)
-{
- unlock_page(p);
- return MF_IGNORED;
-}
-
/*
* Page in unknown state. Do nothing.
* This is a catch-all in case we fail to make sense of the page state.
@@ -1211,10 +1200,8 @@ static int me_huge_page(struct page_state *ps, struct page *p)
#define mlock (1UL << PG_mlocked)
#define lru (1UL << PG_lru)
#define head (1UL << PG_head)
-#define reserved (1UL << PG_reserved)
static struct page_state error_states[] = {
- { reserved, reserved, MF_MSG_KERNEL, me_kernel },
/*
* free pages are specially detected outside this table:
* PG_buddy pages only make a small fraction of all free pages.
@@ -1246,7 +1233,6 @@ static struct page_state error_states[] = {
#undef mlock
#undef lru
#undef head
-#undef reserved
static void update_per_node_mf_stats(unsigned long pfn,
enum mf_result result)
--
2.53.0-Meta
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-13 15:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-13 15:39 [PATCH v7 0/6] mm/memory-failure: add panic option for unrecoverable pages Breno Leitao
2026-05-13 15:39 ` Breno Leitao [this message]
2026-05-13 20:10 ` [PATCH v7 1/6] mm/memory-failure: drop dead error_states[] entry for reserved pages David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-05-13 15:39 ` [PATCH v7 2/6] mm/memory-failure: surface unhandlable kernel pages as -ENOTRECOVERABLE Breno Leitao
2026-05-13 15:39 ` [PATCH v7 3/6] mm/memory-failure: report MF_MSG_KERNEL for unrecoverable kernel pages Breno Leitao
2026-05-13 15:39 ` [PATCH v7 4/6] mm/memory-failure: short-circuit PG_reserved before get_hwpoison_page() Breno Leitao
2026-05-13 19:49 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-05-13 15:39 ` [PATCH v7 5/6] mm/memory-failure: add panic option for unrecoverable pages Breno Leitao
2026-05-13 15:39 ` [PATCH v7 6/6] Documentation: document panic_on_unrecoverable_memory_failure sysctl Breno Leitao
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