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authorOscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>2020-10-15 20:07:29 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-10-16 11:11:17 -0700
commitb94e02822debdf0cc473556aad7dcc859f216653 (patch)
tree5da1f93306beb65420d9c292445d9485f5787887 /mm/memory-failure.c
parent1f2481ddbe444de5bed72f167d7180d1b2708e56 (diff)
mm,hwpoison: try to narrow window race for free pages
Aristeu Rozanski reported that a customer test case started to report -EBUSY after the hwpoison rework patchset. There is a race window between spotting a free page and taking it off its buddy freelist, so it might be that by the time we try to take it off, the page has been already allocated. This patch tries to handle such race window by trying to handle the new type of page again if the page was allocated under us. Reported-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@ruivo.org> Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Tested-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@ruivo.org> Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Dmitry Yakunin <zeil@yandex-team.ru> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.com> Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200922135650.1634-15-osalvador@suse.de Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory-failure.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/memory-failure.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index 7c63ba9ff6e7..a2184b721fbf 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -1903,6 +1903,7 @@ int soft_offline_page(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
{
int ret;
struct page *page;
+ bool try_again = true;
if (!pfn_valid(pfn))
return -ENXIO;
@@ -1918,6 +1919,7 @@ int soft_offline_page(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
return 0;
}
+retry:
get_online_mems();
ret = get_any_page(page, pfn, flags);
put_online_mems();
@@ -1925,7 +1927,10 @@ int soft_offline_page(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
if (ret > 0)
ret = soft_offline_in_use_page(page);
else if (ret == 0)
- ret = soft_offline_free_page(page);
+ if (soft_offline_free_page(page) && try_again) {
+ try_again = false;
+ goto retry;
+ }
return ret;
}