Re: [PATCH v2] mm/memory-failure: Support disabling soft offline for HugeTLB pages

[Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>]

在 2025/9/18 02:59, Kyle Meyer 写道:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 06:35:14AM +0000, Fan, Shawn wrote:
>>>> My original patch for this just skipped the GHES->offline process
>>>> for huge pages. But I wasn't aware of the sysctl control. That provides
>>>> a better solution.
>>>
>>> Tony, does that mean you're OK with using the existing sysctl interface? If
>>> so, I'll just send a separate patch to update the sysfs-memory-page-offline
>>> documentation and drop the rest.
>>
>> Kyle,
>>
>> It depends on which camp the external customer that reported this
>> falls into:
>>
>> 1) "I'm OK disabling all soft offline requests".
>>
>> or the:
>>
>> 2) "I'd like 4K pages to still go offline if the BIOS asks, just not any huge pages".
>>
>> Shawn: Can you please find out?
>>
>>
>> -> Prefer the 2nd option,  "4K pages still go offline if the BIOS asks, just not any huge pages."
> 
> OK, thank you.
> 
> Does that mean they want to avoid offlining transparent huge pages as well?
> 
> Thanks,
> Kyle Meyer


Hi, Shawn,

As memory access is typically interleaved between channels. When the
per-rank threshold is exceeded, soft-offlining the last accessed address
seems unreasonable - regardless of whether it's a 4KB page or a huge
page. The error accumulation happens at the rank level, but the action
is taken on a specific page that happened to trigger the threshold,
which doesn't address the underlying issue.

I prefer the first option that disabling all soft offline requests from
GHES driver.

Thanks.
Shuai