From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pf0-f200.google.com (mail-pf0-f200.google.com [209.85.192.200]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 718116B0038 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2017 16:51:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pf0-f200.google.com with SMTP id d3so35365027pfj.5 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2017 13:51:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mga01.intel.com (mga01.intel.com. [192.55.52.88]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q74si3801028pfi.346.2017.04.27.13.51.27 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 27 Apr 2017 13:51:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Uncharge poisoned pages References: <1493130472-22843-1-git-send-email-ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1493130472-22843-2-git-send-email-ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20170427143721.GK4706@dhcp22.suse.cz> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 13:51:23 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20170427143721.GK4706@dhcp22.suse.cz> (Michal Hocko's message of "Thu, 27 Apr 2017 16:37:21 +0200") Message-ID: <87pofxk20k.fsf@firstfloor.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Michal Hocko Cc: Laurent Dufour , Naoya Horiguchi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Michal Hocko writes: > On Tue 25-04-17 16:27:51, Laurent Dufour wrote: >> When page are poisoned, they should be uncharged from the root memory >> cgroup. >> >> This is required to avoid a BUG raised when the page is onlined back: >> BUG: Bad page state in process mem-on-off-test pfn:7ae3b >> page:f000000001eb8ec0 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping: (null) >> index:0x1 >> flags: 0x3ffff800200000(hwpoison) > > My knowledge of memory poisoning is very rudimentary but aren't those > pages supposed to leak and never come back? In other words isn't the > hoplug code broken because it should leave them alone? Yes that would be the right interpretation. If it was really offlined due to a hardware error the memory will be poisoned and any access could cause a machine check. hwpoison has an own "unpoison" option (only used for debugging), which I think handles this. -Andi -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org