On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 12:18:58PM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 12:18:58 +0800
> From: Wanpeng Li <liw...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> To: Chen Gong <gong.c...@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>, Andi Kleen
> <a...@firstfloor.org>, Fengguang Wu <fengguang...@intel.com>, Naoya
> Horiguchi <n-horigu...@ah.jp.nec.com>, Tony Luck <tony.l...@intel.com>,
> linux...@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] mm/hwpoison: fix miss catch transparent huge
> page
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
>
> On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 11:15:19PM -0400, Chen Gong wrote:
> >On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 07:36:44AM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> >> Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 07:36:44 +0800
> >> From: Wanpeng Li <liw...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >> To: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
> >> Cc: Andi Kleen <a...@firstfloor.org>, Fengguang Wu
> >> <fengguang...@intel.com>, Naoya Horiguchi <n-horigu...@ah.jp.nec.com>,
> >> Tony Luck <tony.l...@intel.com>, gong.c...@linux.intel.com,
> >> linux...@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Wanpeng Li
> >> <liw...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >> Subject: [PATCH v2 2/4] mm/hwpoison: fix miss catch transparent huge page
> >> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.5.4
> >>
> >> Changelog:
> >> *v1 -> v2: reverse PageTransHuge(page) && !PageHuge(page) check
> >>
> >> PageTransHuge() can't guarantee the page is transparent huge page since it
> >> return true for both transparent huge and hugetlbfs pages. This patch fix
> >> it by check the page is also !hugetlbfs page.
> >>
> >> Before patch:
> >>
> >> [ 121.571128] Injecting memory failure at pfn 23a200
> >> [ 121.571141] MCE 0x23a200: huge page recovery: Delayed
> >> [ 140.355100] MCE: Memory failure is now running on 0x23a200
> >>
> >> After patch:
> >>
> >> [ 94.290793] Injecting memory failure at pfn 23a000
> >> [ 94.290800] MCE 0x23a000: huge page recovery: Delayed
> >> [ 105.722303] MCE: Software-unpoisoned page 0x23a000
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liw...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >> ---
> >> mm/memory-failure.c | 2 +-
> >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
> >> index e28ee77..b114570 100644
> >> --- a/mm/memory-failure.c
> >> +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
> >> @@ -1349,7 +1349,7 @@ int unpoison_memory(unsigned long pfn)
> >> * worked by memory_failure() and the page lock is not held yet.
> >> * In such case, we yield to memory_failure() and make unpoison fail.
> >> */
> >> - if (PageTransHuge(page)) {
> >> + if (!PageHuge(page) && PageTransHuge(page)) {
> >> pr_info("MCE: Memory failure is now running on %#lx\n", pfn);
> >> return 0;
> >> }
> >
> >Not sure which git tree should be used to apply this patch series? I assume
> >this patch series follows this link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/26/76.
> >
>
> mmotm tree or linux-next. ;-)
>
> >In unpoison_memory we already have
> > if (PageHuge(page)) {
> > ...
> > return 0;
> > }
> >so it looks like this patch is redundant.
>
> - Do you aware there is condition before go to this check?
> - Do you also analysis why the check can't catch the hugetlbfs page
> through the dump information?
> Looks like we use different trees. After checking your working tree, your patch is right. So just ignore my words above. FWIW, please be polite and give a positive response. > Regards, > Wanpeng Li > > -- > To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in > the body to majord...@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, > see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . > Don't email: <a href=mailto:"d...@kvack.org";> em...@kvack.org </a>
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