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+ hugetlb-do-not-demote-poisoned-hugetlb-pages.patch added to -mm tree

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Andrew Morton March 7, 2022, 11:51 p.m. UTC
The patch titled
     Subject: hugetlb: do not demote poisoned hugetlb pages
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     hugetlb-do-not-demote-poisoned-hugetlb-pages.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/hugetlb-do-not-demote-poisoned-hugetlb-pages.patch
and later at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/hugetlb-do-not-demote-poisoned-hugetlb-pages.patch

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From: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Subject: hugetlb: do not demote poisoned hugetlb pages

It is possible for poisoned hugetlb pages to reside on the free lists. 
The huge page allocation routines which dequeue entries from the free
lists make a point of avoiding poisoned pages.  There is no such check and
avoidance in the demote code path.

If a hugetlb page on the is on a free list, poison will only be set in the
head page rather then the page with the actual error.  If such a page is
demoted, then the poison flag may follow the wrong page.  A page without
error could have poison set, and a page with poison could not have the
flag set.

Check for poison before attempting to demote a hugetlb page.  Also, return
-EBUSY to the caller if only poisoned pages are on the free list.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220307215707.50916-1-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
Fixes: 8531fc6f52f5 ("hugetlb: add hugetlb demote page support")
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/hugetlb.c |   17 ++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
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--- a/mm/hugetlb.c~hugetlb-do-not-demote-poisoned-hugetlb-pages
+++ a/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -3469,7 +3469,6 @@  static int demote_pool_huge_page(struct
 {
 	int nr_nodes, node;
 	struct page *page;
-	int rc = 0;
 
 	lockdep_assert_held(&hugetlb_lock);
 
@@ -3480,15 +3479,19 @@  static int demote_pool_huge_page(struct
 	}
 
 	for_each_node_mask_to_free(h, nr_nodes, node, nodes_allowed) {
-		if (!list_empty(&h->hugepage_freelists[node])) {
-			page = list_entry(h->hugepage_freelists[node].next,
-					struct page, lru);
-			rc = demote_free_huge_page(h, page);
-			break;
+		list_for_each_entry(page, &h->hugepage_freelists[node], lru) {
+			if (PageHWPoison(page))
+				continue;
+
+			return demote_free_huge_page(h, page);
 		}
 	}
 
-	return rc;
+	/*
+	 * Only way to get here is if all pages on free lists are poisoned.
+	 * Return -EBUSY so that caller will not retry.
+	 */
+	return -EBUSY;
 }
 
 #define HSTATE_ATTR_RO(_name) \