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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: uninitialized pmem struct pages
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 08:50:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210105075028.GS13207@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4h6mdKrwpqXfO0e_=sKjB-pY5KbP9ii+tQyFsK5bPkb=A@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon 04-01-21 21:17:43, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 2:45 AM David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote:
[...]
> > I believe Dan mentioned somewhere that he wants to see a real instance
> > of this producing a BUG before actually moving forward with a fix. I
> > might be wrong.
> 
> I think I'm missing an argument for the user-visible effects of the
> "Bad." statements above. I think soft_offline_page() is a candidate
> for a local fix because mm/memory-failure.c already has a significant
> amount of page-type specific knowledge. So teaching it "yes" for
> MEMORY_DEVICE_PRIVATE-ZONE_DEVICE and "no" for other ZONE_DEVICE seems
> ok to me.

I believe we do not want to teach _every_ pfn walker about zone device
pages. This would be quite error prone. Especially when a missig check
could lead to a silently broken data or BUG_ON with debugging enabled
(which is not the case for many production users). Or are we talking
about different bugs here?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs


  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-05  7:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-04 10:03 Michal Hocko
2021-01-04 10:45 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-04 14:26   ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-04 14:51     ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-04 15:10       ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-04 15:15         ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-04 15:33           ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-04 15:43             ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-04 15:44               ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-05  8:00                 ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-05  8:16                   ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-05  8:27                     ` Dan Williams
2021-01-05  8:42                       ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-05  8:57                         ` Dan Williams
2021-01-05  9:05                           ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-05  9:13                             ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-05  9:25                               ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-05  9:27                                 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-04 15:59               ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-04 16:30                 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-05  7:44                   ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-05  9:56                     ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-05  5:33                 ` Dan Williams
2021-01-05  7:40                   ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-05  5:17   ` Dan Williams
2021-01-05  7:50     ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2021-01-05  9:16       ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-05  9:25     ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-05  9:33       ` Dan Williams
2021-01-05  9:37         ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-05  9:56           ` Dan Williams
2021-01-05  9:58             ` David Hildenbrand

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