Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] mm,hwpoison,hugetlb,memory_hotplug: hotremove memory section with hwpoisoned hugepage

["HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)" <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 04:14:40PM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> On 2022/9/6 14:14, HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也) wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 10:59:58AM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> >> On 2022/9/5 14:21, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> >>> From: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
> >>>
> >>> HWPoisoned page is not supposed to be accessed once marked, but currently
> >>> such accesses can happen during memory hotremove because do_migrate_range()
> >>> can be called before dissolve_free_huge_pages() is called.
> >>>
> >>> Move dissolve_free_huge_pages() before scan_movable_pages(). Recently
> >>> delayed dissolve has been implemented, so the dissolving can turn
> >>> a hwpoisoned hugepage into 4kB hwpoison page, which memory hotplug can
> >>> handle safely.
> >>
> >> Yes, thanks for your work, Naoya. ;)
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Reported-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>  mm/memory_hotplug.c | 22 +++++++++++-----------
> >>>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> >>> index fad6d1f2262a..c24735d63b25 100644
> >>> --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> >>> +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> >>> @@ -1880,6 +1880,17 @@ int __ref offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
> >>>  
> >>>  			cond_resched();
> >>>  
> >>> +			/*
> >>> +			 * Dissolve free hugepages in the memory block before doing
> >>> +			 * offlining actually in order to make hugetlbfs's object
> >>> +			 * counting consistent.
> >>> +			 */
> >>> +			ret = dissolve_free_huge_pages(start_pfn, end_pfn);
> >>> +			if (ret) {
> >>> +				reason = "failure to dissolve huge pages";
> >>> +				goto failed_removal_isolated;
> >>> +			}
> >>
> >> This change has a side-effect. If hugetlb pages are in-use, dissolve_free_huge_pages() will always return -EBUSY
> >> even if those pages can be migrated. So we fail to hotremove the memory even if they could be offlined.
> >> Or am I miss something?
> > 
> > Thank you for the comment, you're right.  (Taking a look over my test result
> > carefully, it showed failures for the related cases, I somehow overlooked
> > them, really sorry.)  So my second thought is that we keep offline_pages()
> > as is, and insert a few line in do_migrate_range() to handle the case of
> > hwpoisoned hugepage like below:
> > 
> > @@ -1642,6 +1642,8 @@ do_migrate_range(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
> > 
> >                 if (PageHuge(page)) {
> >                         pfn = page_to_pfn(head) + compound_nr(head) - 1;
> > +                       if (PageHWPoison(head))
> > +                               continue;
> 
> Thanks for your update. But it seems this is not enough. With the above code change, HWPoisoned
> hugetlb pages will always be ignored in do_migrate_range(). And if these pages are HPageMigratable,
> they will be returned in scan_movable_pages() then passed into the do_migrate_range() again. Thus
> a possible deadloop will occur until these pages become un-movable?

Yeah, so scan_movable_pages() can have an additional check for hwpoisoned hugepages, or
making hwpoisoned hugepage to be !HPageMigratable (somehow) might be another option.
I like the latter one for now, but I need look into how I can update the patch more.

> 
> >                         isolate_hugetlb(head, &source);
> >                         continue;
> >                 } else if (PageTransHuge(page))
> > 
> > This is slightly different from your original suggestion
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220421135129.19767-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com/T
> > , as discussed in the thread existing "if (PageHWPoison(page))" branch in
> > this function can't be used for hugetlb.  We could adjust them to handle
> > hugetlb, but maybe separating code for hugetlb first from the others looks
> > less compicated to me.
> 
> It might be better to do something, e.g. unmap the hugetlb pages to prevent accessing from process if mapped,
> even try truncating the error page from pagecache. But I have no strong opinion as handling memory failure
> would always be a best try. ;)

This could be helpful, I'll try some.
Thank you for valuable comments.

- Naoya Horiguchi

> 
> Thanks,
> Miaohe Lin
> 
> 
> > 
> > If you have any suggestion on this, please let me know.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Naoya Horiguchi
> >