Re: [PATCH v2] mm/hugetlb: fix memory offline failure due to hwpoisoned file hugetlb

David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-03-24T08:00:55Z

On 3/24/26 07:41, Jinjiang Tu wrote:
>
> 在 2026/3/23 20:14, David Hildenbrand (Arm) 写道:
>> On 3/21/26 03:10, Jinjiang Tu wrote:
>>> When a file hugetlb folio triggers UCE, me_huge_page() will keep the
>>> hugetlb folio in pagcahe with refcount increased and PG_hwpoison set.
>>> Even
>>> after the hugetlb file is deleted, the hugetlb folio is still leaked.
>>>
>>> If we want to offline the memory block that the hwpoisoned hugetlb folio
>>> belongs to, it fails in dissolve_free_hugetlb_folios() due to the
>>> hwpoisoned hugetlb folio isn't free.
>>>
>>> I can reproduce this issue with the following steps in qemu:
>>>   1) echo offline >/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks
>>>   2) in qemu monitor:
>>>         object_add memory-backend-ram,id=mem10,size=1G
>>>         device_add pc-dimm,id=dimm1,memdev=mem10,node=2
>>>   3) echo online_movable > /sys/devices/system/node/node2/memory136/
>>> state
>>>   4) echo 5 > /sys/devices/system/node/node2/hugepages/
>>> hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
>>>   5) run ./hugetlb_file. This process will receive SIGBUS.
>>>   6) remove the hugetlbfs file.
>>>   7) echo offline > /sys/devices/system/node/node2/memory136/state
>>>
>>> hugetlb_file.c:
>>>    fd = open("/dev/hugepages/my_hugepage_file", O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0755);
>>>    fallocate(fd, 0, 0, HUGEPAGE_SIZE * 2);
>>>    addr = mmap(NULL, HUGEPAGE_SIZE * 2, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
>>>         MAP_SHARED | MAP_HUGETLB, fd, 0);
>>>    memset(addr, 0xaa, HUGEPAGE_SIZE * 2);
>>>    madvise(addr, HUGEPAGE_SIZE, MADV_HWPOISON);
>>>
>>> To fix it, force to put ref of hwpoisoned hugetlb in memory offline, the
>>> hwpoisoned hugetlb will be freed and succeeds to be dissolved. We
>>> couldn't
>>> avoid races here, just like commit b023f46813cd ("memory-hotplug: skip
>>> HWPoisoned page when offlining pages"), which force to skip hwpoisoned
>>> page regardless of refcount.
>> I always considered that handling quite dubious. Just because a page has
>> hwpoisoned set doesn't mean that we can just offline it.
>>
>> I think that mus be cleaned up at some point.
>>
>> But not sure how to do this cleanly.
>>
>> Why do we even care about offlining memory with hwpoisoned pages? What
>> is the use case for your change?
>
> Considering CXL memory device and we hotplug the memory as NUMA. If the
> device is disconnected, accessing the CXL memory will trigger memory-
> failure.
>
> We still want to offline the memory, so that we can reonline and use the
> memory again when CXL memory device is reconnected.

Disconnecting a CXL device while the memory is still exposed to Linux,
and using memory-faults for protecting from that?

Oh my, that is horrible!

That's not what memory-failure handling is supposed to be used for. It's
supposed to be used for, you know "memory failure", not disconnected
devices :)

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Cheers,

David