mm: soft-offline: close the race against page allocation

A process can be killed with SIGBUS(BUS_MCEERR_AR) when it tries to
allocate a page that was just freed on the way of soft-offline.  This is
undesirable because soft-offline (which is about corrected error) is
less aggressive than hard-offline (which is about uncorrected error),
and we can make soft-offline fail and keep using the page for good
reason like "system is busy."

Two main changes of this patch are:

- setting migrate type of the target page to MIGRATE_ISOLATE. As done
  in free_unref_page_commit(), this makes kernel bypass pcplist when
  freeing the page. So we can assume that the page is in freelist just
  after put_page() returns,

- setting PG_hwpoison on free page under zone->lock which protects
  freelists, so this allows us to avoid setting PG_hwpoison on a page
  that is decided to be allocated soon.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page() comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1531452366-11661-3-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Reported-by: Xishi Qiu <xishi.qiuxishi@alibaba-inc.com>
Tested-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: <zy.zhengyi@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Naoya Horiguchi 2018-08-23 17:00:42 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 6bc9b56433
commit d4ae9916ea
5 changed files with 57 additions and 16 deletions

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@ -369,8 +369,13 @@ PAGEFLAG_FALSE(Uncached)
PAGEFLAG(HWPoison, hwpoison, PF_ANY)
TESTSCFLAG(HWPoison, hwpoison, PF_ANY)
#define __PG_HWPOISON (1UL << PG_hwpoison)
extern bool set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page(struct page *page);
#else
PAGEFLAG_FALSE(HWPoison)
static inline bool set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page(struct page *page)
{
return 0;
}
#define __PG_HWPOISON 0
#endif

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@ -340,11 +340,6 @@ static inline int is_hwpoison_entry(swp_entry_t entry)
return swp_type(entry) == SWP_HWPOISON;
}
static inline bool test_set_page_hwpoison(struct page *page)
{
return TestSetPageHWPoison(page);
}
static inline void num_poisoned_pages_inc(void)
{
atomic_long_inc(&num_poisoned_pages);
@ -367,11 +362,6 @@ static inline int is_hwpoison_entry(swp_entry_t swp)
return 0;
}
static inline bool test_set_page_hwpoison(struct page *page)
{
return false;
}
static inline void num_poisoned_pages_inc(void)
{
}

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@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
#include <linux/mm_inline.h>
#include <linux/kfifo.h>
#include <linux/ratelimit.h>
#include <linux/page-isolation.h>
#include "internal.h"
#include "ras/ras_event.h"
@ -1697,6 +1698,7 @@ static int __soft_offline_page(struct page *page, int flags)
static int soft_offline_in_use_page(struct page *page, int flags)
{
int ret;
int mt;
struct page *hpage = compound_head(page);
if (!PageHuge(page) && PageTransHuge(hpage)) {
@ -1715,23 +1717,37 @@ static int soft_offline_in_use_page(struct page *page, int flags)
put_hwpoison_page(hpage);
}
/*
* Setting MIGRATE_ISOLATE here ensures that the page will be linked
* to free list immediately (not via pcplist) when released after
* successful page migration. Otherwise we can't guarantee that the
* page is really free after put_page() returns, so
* set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page() highly likely fails.
*/
mt = get_pageblock_migratetype(page);
set_pageblock_migratetype(page, MIGRATE_ISOLATE);
if (PageHuge(page))
ret = soft_offline_huge_page(page, flags);
else
ret = __soft_offline_page(page, flags);
set_pageblock_migratetype(page, mt);
return ret;
}
static void soft_offline_free_page(struct page *page)
static int soft_offline_free_page(struct page *page)
{
int rc = 0;
struct page *head = compound_head(page);
if (PageHuge(head))
rc = dissolve_free_huge_page(page);
if (!rc && !TestSetPageHWPoison(page))
num_poisoned_pages_inc();
if (!rc) {
if (set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page(page))
num_poisoned_pages_inc();
else
rc = -EBUSY;
}
return rc;
}
/**
@ -1775,7 +1791,7 @@ int soft_offline_page(struct page *page, int flags)
if (ret > 0)
ret = soft_offline_in_use_page(page, flags);
else if (ret == 0)
soft_offline_free_page(page);
ret = soft_offline_free_page(page);
return ret;
}

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@ -1212,7 +1212,7 @@ out:
* intentionally. Although it's rather weird,
* it's how HWPoison flag works at the moment.
*/
if (!test_set_page_hwpoison(page))
if (set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page(page))
num_poisoned_pages_inc();
}
} else {

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@ -8096,3 +8096,33 @@ bool is_free_buddy_page(struct page *page)
return order < MAX_ORDER;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE
/*
* Set PG_hwpoison flag if a given page is confirmed to be a free page. This
* test is performed under the zone lock to prevent a race against page
* allocation.
*/
bool set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page(struct page *page)
{
struct zone *zone = page_zone(page);
unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
unsigned long flags;
unsigned int order;
bool hwpoisoned = false;
spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
for (order = 0; order < MAX_ORDER; order++) {
struct page *page_head = page - (pfn & ((1 << order) - 1));
if (PageBuddy(page_head) && page_order(page_head) >= order) {
if (!TestSetPageHWPoison(page))
hwpoisoned = true;
break;
}
}
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);
return hwpoisoned;
}
#endif