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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


  reply	other threads:[~2026-05-13 15:39 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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