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From: gengdongjiu <gengdongjiu@huawei.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>, James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Huangshaoyu <huangshaoyu@huawei.com>,
	Wuquanming <wuquanming@huawei.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [Question ]: Avoid kernel panic when killing an application if happen RAS page table error
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 15:09:42 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42ebc814-fd8d-0de5-5c3c-e2eec02ebf66@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171215193551.GD27160@bombadil.infradead.org>

On 2017/12/16 3:35, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> It's going to be complicated to do, I don't think its worth the effort.
> We can find a bit in struct page that we guarantee will only be set if
> this is allocated as a pagetable.  Bit 1 of the third union is currently
> available (compound_head is a pointer if bit 0 is set, so nothing is
> using bit 1).  We can put a pointer to the mm_struct in the same word.
> 
> Finding all the allocated pages will be the tricky bit.  We could put a
> list_head into struct page; perhaps in the same spot as page_deferred_list
> for tail pages.  Then we can link all the pagetables belonging to
> this mm together and tear them all down if any of them get an error.
> They'll repopulate on demand.  It won't be quick or scalable, but when
> the alternative is death, it looks relatively attractive.
Thanks for the comments, I will check it in detailed and investigate whether it is worth to do for it.
Thanks!

> 
> .
> 

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      reply	other threads:[~2017-12-16  7:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-03 13:22 [question] handle the page table RAS error gengdongjiu
2017-12-04 12:01 ` gengdongjiu
2017-12-05 16:57 ` Andi Kleen
2017-12-06  8:56   ` gengdongjiu
2017-12-06  9:03     ` [question] handle the page table RAS error(Avoid kernel panic when killing an application) gengdongjiu
2017-12-15  1:54       ` [consult the suggestion]: Avoid kernel panic when killing an application if happen RAS page table error gengdongjiu
2017-12-15  2:00         ` [Question ]: " gengdongjiu
2017-12-15 18:52           ` James Morse
2017-12-15 19:35             ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-12-16  7:09               ` gengdongjiu [this message]

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