mm,hwpoison: try to narrow window race for free pages
authorOscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Fri, 16 Oct 2020 03:07:29 +0000 (20:07 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 16 Oct 2020 18:11:17 +0000 (11:11 -0700)
commitb94e02822debdf0cc473556aad7dcc859f216653
tree5da1f93306beb65420d9c292445d9485f5787887
parent1f2481ddbe444de5bed72f167d7180d1b2708e56
mm,hwpoison: try to narrow window race for free pages

Aristeu Rozanski reported that a customer test case started to report
-EBUSY after the hwpoison rework patchset.

There is a race window between spotting a free page and taking it off its
buddy freelist, so it might be that by the time we try to take it off, the
page has been already allocated.

This patch tries to handle such race window by trying to handle the new
type of page again if the page was allocated under us.

Reported-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@ruivo.org>
Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@ruivo.org>
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Yakunin <zeil@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.com>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200922135650.1634-15-osalvador@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/memory-failure.c