Re: [PATCH v3] mm: release private data before split THP

[Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com>]

On 2022/8/11 09:54, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> On 2022/8/10 14:49, Yin Fengwei wrote:
>> If there is private data attached to THP, the refcount of
>> THP will be increased and block the THP split. Release
>> private data attached to THP before split it to increase
>> the chance of splitting THP successfully.
>>
>> There was a memory failure issue hit during HW error
>> injection testing with 5.18 kernel + xfs as rootfs. Test
>> got killed and system reboot was required to re-run the
>> test.
>>
>> The issue was tracked down to THP split failure caused the
>> memory failure not being handled. The page dump showed:
>>
>> [ 1785.433075] page:0000000025f9530b refcount:18 mapcount:0 mapping:000000008162eea7 index:0xa10 pfn:0x2f0200
>> [ 1785.443954] head:0000000025f9530b order:4 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
>> [ 1785.452408] memcg:ff4247f2d28e9000
>> [ 1785.456304] aops:xfs_address_space_operations ino:8555182 dentry name:"baseos-filenames.solvx"
>> [ 1785.466612] flags: 0x1000000000012036(referenced|uptodate|lru|active|private|head|node=0|zone=2)
>> [ 1785.476514] raw: 1000000000012036 ffb9460f8bc07c08 ffb9460f8bc08408 ff4247f22e6299f8
>> [ 1785.485268] raw: 0000000000000a10 ff4247f194ade900 00000012ffffffff ff4247f2d28e9000
>>
>> It was like the error was injected to a large folio for xfs
>> with private data attached.
>>
>> With private data released before split THP, the test case
>> could be run successfully many times without reboot system.
>>
>> Co-developed-by: Qiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo@intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Qiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo@intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com>
>> Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> 
> Thanks for your work.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Thanks for your reviewing.

Regards
Yin, Fengwei

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