Re: [PATCH] hugetlbfs: don't delete error page from pagecache

HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)
2022-11-04T02:10:55Z

On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 08:01:25PM +0000, James Houghton wrote:
> This change is very similar to the change that was made for shmem [1],
> and it solves the same problem but for HugeTLBFS instead.
>
> Currently, when poison is found in a HugeTLB page, the page is removed
> from the page cache. That means that attempting to map or read that
> hugepage in the future will result in a new hugepage being allocated
> instead of notifying the user that the page was poisoned. As [1] states,
> this is effectively memory corruption.
>
> The fix is to leave the page in the page cache. If the user attempts to
> use a poisoned HugeTLB page with a syscall, the syscall will fail with
> EIO, the same error code that shmem uses. For attempts to map the page,
> the thread will get a BUS_MCEERR_AR SIGBUS.
>
> [1]: commit a76054266661 ("mm: shmem: don't truncate page if memory failure happens")
>
> Signed-off-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>

I did some testing and found no issue. So I agree with this patch.
Thank you very much.

Tested-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>

As for whether to go with HGM patchset or not, I have no strong opinion.
As you stated in another email this patch is correct without HGM patch,
so it's OK to me to make this merged first.

Thanks,
Naoya Horiguchi