Re: [PATCH] mm/memory-failure: Do not call action_result() on already poisoned pages

[Jiaqi Yan <jiaqiyan@google.com>]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM Kyle Meyer <kyle.meyer@hpe.com> wrote:
>
> Calling action_result() on already poisoned pages causes issues:
>
> * The amount of hardware corrupted memory is incorrectly incremented.
> * NUMA node memory failure statistics are incorrectly updated.
> * Redundant "already poisoned" messages are printed.

All agreed.

>
> Do not call action_result() on already poisoned pages and drop unused
> MF_MSG_ALREADY_POISONED.

Hi Kyle,

Patch looks great to me, just one thought...

Alternatively, have you thought about keeping MF_MSG_ALREADY_POISONED
but changing action_result for MF_MSG_ALREADY_POISONED?
- don't num_poisoned_pages_inc(pfn)
- don't update_per_node_mf_stats(pfn, result)
- still pr_err("%#lx: recovery action for %s: %s\n", ...)
- meanwhile remove "pr_err("%#lx: already hardware poisoned\n", pfn)"
in memory_failure and try_memory_failure_hugetlb

This way, all the MF recovery result kernel logs out will be sitting
in one place, action_result, instead of scattering around all over the
place.

>
> Fixes: b8b9488d50b7 ("mm/memory-failure: improve memory failure action_result messages")
> Signed-off-by: Kyle Meyer <kyle.meyer@hpe.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/mm.h      | 1 -
>  include/ras/ras_event.h | 1 -
>  mm/memory-failure.c     | 3 ---
>  3 files changed, 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index 1ae97a0b8ec7..09ce81ef7afc 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -4005,7 +4005,6 @@ enum mf_action_page_type {
>         MF_MSG_BUDDY,
>         MF_MSG_DAX,
>         MF_MSG_UNSPLIT_THP,
> -       MF_MSG_ALREADY_POISONED,
>         MF_MSG_UNKNOWN,
>  };
>
> diff --git a/include/ras/ras_event.h b/include/ras/ras_event.h
> index c8cd0f00c845..f62a52f5bd81 100644
> --- a/include/ras/ras_event.h
> +++ b/include/ras/ras_event.h
> @@ -374,7 +374,6 @@ TRACE_EVENT(aer_event,
>         EM ( MF_MSG_BUDDY, "free buddy page" )                          \
>         EM ( MF_MSG_DAX, "dax page" )                                   \
>         EM ( MF_MSG_UNSPLIT_THP, "unsplit thp" )                        \
> -       EM ( MF_MSG_ALREADY_POISONED, "already poisoned" )              \
>         EMe ( MF_MSG_UNKNOWN, "unknown page" )
>
>  /*
> diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
> index e2e685b971bb..7839ec83bc1d 100644
> --- a/mm/memory-failure.c
> +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
> @@ -948,7 +948,6 @@ static const char * const action_page_types[] = {
>         [MF_MSG_BUDDY]                  = "free buddy page",
>         [MF_MSG_DAX]                    = "dax page",
>         [MF_MSG_UNSPLIT_THP]            = "unsplit thp",
> -       [MF_MSG_ALREADY_POISONED]       = "already poisoned",
>         [MF_MSG_UNKNOWN]                = "unknown page",
>  };
>
> @@ -2090,7 +2089,6 @@ static int try_memory_failure_hugetlb(unsigned long pfn, int flags, int *hugetlb
>                 if (flags & MF_ACTION_REQUIRED) {
>                         folio = page_folio(p);
>                         res = kill_accessing_process(current, folio_pfn(folio), flags);
> -                       action_result(pfn, MF_MSG_ALREADY_POISONED, MF_FAILED);
>                 }
>                 return res;
>         } else if (res == -EBUSY) {
> @@ -2283,7 +2281,6 @@ int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
>                         res = kill_accessing_process(current, pfn, flags);
>                 if (flags & MF_COUNT_INCREASED)
>                         put_page(p);
> -               action_result(pfn, MF_MSG_ALREADY_POISONED, MF_FAILED);
>                 goto unlock_mutex;
>         }
>
> --
> 2.50.1
>
>