When an uncorrected memory error is consumed there is a race between the
CMCI from the memory controller reporting an uncorrected error with a UCNA
signature, and the core reporting and SRAR signature machine check when
the data is about to be consumed.
- Background: why *UN*corrected errors tied to *C*MCI in Intel platform [1]
Prior to Icelake memory controllers reported patrol scrub events that
detected a previously unseen uncorrected error in memory by signaling a
broadcast machine check with an SRAO (Software Recoverable Action
Optional) signature in the machine check bank. This was overkill because
it's not an urgent problem that no core is on the verge of consuming that
bad data. It's also found that multi SRAO UCE may cause nested MCE
interrupts and finally become an IERR.
Hence, Intel downgrades the machine check bank signature of patrol scrub
from SRAO to UCNA (Uncorrected, No Action required), and signal changed to
#CMCI. Just to add to the confusion, Linux does take an action (in
uc_decode_notifier()) to try to offline the page despite the UC*NA*
signature name.
- Background: why #CMCI and #MCE race when poison is consuming in Intel platform [1]
Having decided that CMCI/UCNA is the best action for patrol scrub errors,
the memory controller uses it for reads too. But the memory controller is
executing asynchronously from the core, and can't tell the difference
between a "real" read and a speculative read. So it will do CMCI/UCNA if
an error is found in any read.
Thus:
1) Core is clever and thinks address A is needed soon, issues a speculative read.
2) Core finds it is going to use address A soon after sending the read request
3) The CMCI from the memory controller is in a race with MCE from the core
that will soon try to retire the load from address A.
Quite often (because speculation has got better) the CMCI from the memory
controller is delivered before the core is committed to the instruction
reading address A, so the interrupt is taken, and Linux offlines the page
(marking it as poison).
- Why user process is killed for instr case
Commit 046545a661 ("mm/hwpoison: fix error page recovered but reported
"not recovered"") tries to fix noise message "Memory error not recovered"
and skips duplicate SIGBUSs due to the race. But it also introduced a bug
that kill_accessing_process() return -EHWPOISON for instr case, as result,
kill_me_maybe() send a SIGBUS to user process.
If the CMCI wins that race, the page is marked poisoned when
uc_decode_notifier() calls memory_failure(). For dirty pages,
memory_failure() invokes try_to_unmap() with the TTU_HWPOISON flag,
converting the PTE to a hwpoison entry. As a result,
kill_accessing_process():
- call walk_page_range() and return 1 regardless of whether
try_to_unmap() succeeds or fails,
- call kill_proc() to make sure a SIGBUS is sent
- return -EHWPOISON to indicate that SIGBUS is already sent to the
process and kill_me_maybe() doesn't have to send it again.
However, for clean pages, the TTU_HWPOISON flag is cleared, leaving the
PTE unchanged and not converted to a hwpoison entry. Conversely, for
clean pages where PTE entries are not marked as hwpoison,
kill_accessing_process() returns -EFAULT, causing kill_me_maybe() to send
a SIGBUS.
Console log looks like this:
Memory failure: 0x827ca68: corrupted page was clean: dropped without side effects
Memory failure: 0x827ca68: recovery action for clean LRU page: Recovered
Memory failure: 0x827ca68: already hardware poisoned
mce: Memory error not recovered
To fix it, return 0 for "corrupted page was clean", preventing an
unnecessary SIGBUS to user process.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250217063335.22257-1-xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com/T/#mba94f1305b3009dd340ce4114d3221fe810d1871
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250312112852.82415-3-xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com
Fixes: 046545a661 ("mm/hwpoison: fix error page recovered but reported "not recovered"")
Signed-off-by: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>
Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ruidong Tian <tianruidong@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm: memory_failure: unmap poisoned folio during migrate
properly", v3.
Fix two bugs during folio migration if the folio is poisoned.
This patch (of 3):
Commit 6da6b1d4a7 ("mm/hwpoison: convert TTU_IGNORE_HWPOISON to
TTU_HWPOISON") introduce TTU_HWPOISON to replace TTU_IGNORE_HWPOISON in
order to stop send SIGBUS signal when accessing an error page after a
memory error on a clean folio. However during page migration, anon folio
must be set with TTU_HWPOISON during unmap_*(). For pagecache we need
some policy just like the one in hwpoison_user_mappings to set this flag.
So move this policy from hwpoison_user_mappings to unmap_poisoned_folio to
handle this warning properly.
Warning will be produced during unamp poison folio with the following log:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 365 at mm/rmap.c:1847 try_to_unmap_one+0x8fc/0xd3c
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 365 Comm: bash Tainted: G W 6.13.0-rc1-00018-gacdb4bbda7ab #42
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
pstate: 20400005 (nzCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : try_to_unmap_one+0x8fc/0xd3c
lr : try_to_unmap_one+0x3dc/0xd3c
Call trace:
try_to_unmap_one+0x8fc/0xd3c (P)
try_to_unmap_one+0x3dc/0xd3c (L)
rmap_walk_anon+0xdc/0x1f8
rmap_walk+0x3c/0x58
try_to_unmap+0x88/0x90
unmap_poisoned_folio+0x30/0xa8
do_migrate_range+0x4a0/0x568
offline_pages+0x5a4/0x670
memory_block_action+0x17c/0x374
memory_subsys_offline+0x3c/0x78
device_offline+0xa4/0xd0
state_store+0x8c/0xf0
dev_attr_store+0x18/0x2c
sysfs_kf_write+0x44/0x54
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x118/0x1a8
vfs_write+0x3a8/0x4bc
ksys_write+0x6c/0xf8
__arm64_sys_write+0x1c/0x28
invoke_syscall+0x44/0x100
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x40/0xe0
do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x28
el0_svc+0x30/0xd0
el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc8/0xcc
el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[mawupeng1@huawei.com: unmap_poisoned_folio(): remove shadowed local `mapping', per Miaohe]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250219060653.3849083-1-mawupeng1@huawei.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250217014329.3610326-1-mawupeng1@huawei.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250217014329.3610326-2-mawupeng1@huawei.com
Fixes: 6da6b1d4a7 ("mm/hwpoison: convert TTU_IGNORE_HWPOISON to TTU_HWPOISON")
Signed-off-by: Ma Wupeng <mawupeng1@huawei.com>
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Ma Wupeng <mawupeng1@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Add the const qualifier to all the ctl_tables in the tree except for
watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl, memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
loadpin_sysctl_table and the ones calling register_net_sysctl (./net,
drivers/inifiniband dirs). These are special cases as they use a
registration function with a non-const qualified ctl_table argument or
modify the arrays before passing them on to the registration function.
Constifying ctl_table structs will prevent the modification of
proc_handler function pointers as the arrays would reside in .rodata.
This is made possible after commit 78eb4ea25c ("sysctl: treewide:
constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers") constified all the
proc_handlers.
Created this by running an spatch followed by a sed command:
Spatch:
virtual patch
@
depends on !(file in "net")
disable optional_qualifier
@
identifier table_name != {
watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl,
iwcm_ctl_table,
ucma_ctl_table,
memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
loadpin_sysctl_table
};
@@
+ const
struct ctl_table table_name [] = { ... };
sed:
sed --in-place \
-e "s/struct ctl_table .table = &uts_kern/const struct ctl_table *table = \&uts_kern/" \
kernel/utsname_sysctl.c
Reviewed-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> # for kernel/trace/
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> # SCSI
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> # xfs
Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell <bodonnel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
This function doesn't modify any of its arguments, so if we make a few
other functions take const pointers, we can make page_address_in_vma()
take const pointers too. All of its callers have the containing folio
already, so pass that in as an argument instead of recalculating it. Also
add kernel-doc
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241005200121.3231142-4-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "page->index removals in mm", v2.
As part of shrinking struct page, we need to stop using page->index. This
patchset gets rid of most of the remaining references to page->index in
mm, as well as increasing the number of functions which take a const
folio/page pointer. It shrinks the text segment of mm by a few hundred
bytes in my test config, probably mostly from removing calls to
compound_head() in page_to_pgoff().
This patch (of 7):
Change the function signature to pass in the folio as all three callers
have it. This removes a reference to page->index, which we're trying to
get rid of. And add kernel-doc.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241005200121.3231142-1-willy@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241005200121.3231142-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The memory_failure_cpu structure is a per-cpu structure. Access to its
content requires the use of get_cpu_var() to lock in the current CPU and
disable preemption. The use of a regular spinlock_t for locking purpose
is fine for a non-RT kernel.
Since the integration of RT spinlock support into the v5.15 kernel, a
spinlock_t in a RT kernel becomes a sleeping lock and taking a sleeping
lock in a preemption disabled context is illegal resulting in the
following kind of warning.
[12135.732244] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48
[12135.732248] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 270076, name: kworker/0:0
[12135.732252] preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
[12135.732255] RCU nest depth: 2, expected: 2
:
[12135.732420] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R640/0HG0J8, BIOS 2.10.2 02/24/2021
[12135.732423] Workqueue: kacpi_notify acpi_os_execute_deferred
[12135.732433] Call Trace:
[12135.732436] <TASK>
[12135.732450] dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x81
[12135.732461] __might_resched.cold+0xf4/0x12f
[12135.732479] rt_spin_lock+0x4c/0x100
[12135.732491] memory_failure_queue+0x40/0xe0
[12135.732503] ghes_do_memory_failure+0x53/0x390
[12135.732516] ghes_do_proc.constprop.0+0x229/0x3e0
[12135.732575] ghes_proc+0xf9/0x1a0
[12135.732591] ghes_notify_hed+0x6a/0x150
[12135.732602] notifier_call_chain+0x43/0xb0
[12135.732626] blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x43/0x60
[12135.732637] acpi_ev_notify_dispatch+0x47/0x70
[12135.732648] acpi_os_execute_deferred+0x13/0x20
[12135.732654] process_one_work+0x41f/0x500
[12135.732695] worker_thread+0x192/0x360
[12135.732715] kthread+0x111/0x140
[12135.732733] ret_from_fork+0x29/0x50
[12135.732779] </TASK>
Fix it by using a raw_spinlock_t for locking instead.
Also move the pr_err() out of the lock critical section and after
put_cpu_ptr() to avoid indeterminate latency and the possibility of sleep
with this call.
[longman@redhat.com: don't hold percpu ref across pr_err(), per Miaohe]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240807181130.1122660-1-longman@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240806164107.1044956-1-longman@redhat.com
Fixes: 0f383b6dc9 ("locking/spinlock: Provide RT variant")
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Correctable memory errors are very common on servers with large amount of
memory, and are corrected by ECC. Soft offline is kernel's additional
recovery handling for memory pages having (excessive) corrected memory
errors. Impacted page is migrated to a healthy page if inuse; the
original page is discarded for any future use.
The actual policy on whether (and when) to soft offline should be
maintained by userspace, especially in case of an 1G HugeTLB page.
Soft-offline dissolves the HugeTLB page, either in-use or free, into
chunks of 4K pages, reducing HugeTLB pool capacity by 1 hugepage. If
userspace has not acknowledged such behavior, it may be surprised when
later failed to mmap hugepages due to lack of hugepages. In case of a
transparent hugepage, it will be split into 4K pages as well; userspace
will stop enjoying the transparent performance.
In addition, discarding the entire 1G HugeTLB page only because of
corrected memory errors sounds very costly and kernel better not doing
under the hood. But today there are at least 2 such cases doing so:
1. when GHES driver sees both GHES_SEV_CORRECTED and
CPER_SEC_ERROR_THRESHOLD_EXCEEDED after parsing CPER.
2. RAS Correctable Errors Collector counts correctable errors per
PFN and when the counter for a PFN reaches threshold
In both cases, userspace has no control of the soft offline performed
by kernel's memory failure recovery.
This commit gives userspace the control of softofflining any page: kernel
only soft offlines raw page / transparent hugepage / HugeTLB hugepage if
userspace has agreed to. The interface to userspace is a new sysctl at
/proc/sys/vm/enable_soft_offline. By default its value is set to 1 to
preserve existing behavior in kernel. When set to 0, soft-offline (e.g.
MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE) will fail with EOPNOTSUPP.
[jiaqiyan@google.com: v7]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240628205958.2845610-3-jiaqiyan@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240626050818.2277273-3-jiaqiyan@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jiaqi Yan <jiaqiyan@google.com>
Acked-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com>
Cc: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "Userspace controls soft-offline pages", v6.
Correctable memory errors are very common on servers with large amount of
memory, and are corrected by ECC, but with two pain points to users:
1. Correction usually happens on the fly and adds latency overhead
2. Not-fully-proved theory states excessive correctable memory
errors can develop into uncorrectable memory error.
Soft offline is kernel's additional solution for memory pages having
(excessive) corrected memory errors. Impacted page is migrated to healthy
page if it is in use, then the original page is discarded for any future
use.
The actual policy on whether (and when) to soft offline should be
maintained by userspace, especially in case of an 1G HugeTLB page.
Soft-offline dissolves the HugeTLB page, either in-use or free, into
chunks of 4K pages, reducing HugeTLB pool capacity by 1 hugepage. If
userspace has not acknowledged such behavior, it may be surprised when
later mmap hugepages MAP_FAILED due to lack of hugepages. In case of a
transparent hugepage, it will be split into 4K pages as well; userspace
will stop enjoying the transparent performance.
In addition, discarding the entire 1G HugeTLB page only because of
corrected memory errors sounds very costly and kernel better not doing
under the hood. But today there are at least 2 such cases:
1. GHES driver sees both GHES_SEV_CORRECTED and
CPER_SEC_ERROR_THRESHOLD_EXCEEDED after parsing CPER.
2. RAS Correctable Errors Collector counts correctable errors per
PFN and when the counter for a PFN reaches threshold
In both cases, userspace has no control of the soft offline performed by
kernel's memory failure recovery.
This patch series give userspace the control of softofflining any page:
kernel only soft offlines raw page / transparent hugepage / HugeTLB
hugepage if userspace has agreed to. The interface to userspace is a new
sysctl called enable_soft_offline under /proc/sys/vm. By default
enable_soft_line is 1 to preserve existing behavior in kernel.
This patch (of 4):
Logs from soft_offline_page and soft_offline_in_use_page have different
formats than majority of the memory failure code:
"Memory failure: 0x${pfn}: ${lower_case_message}"
Convert them to the following format:
"Soft offline: 0x${pfn}: ${lower_case_message}"
No functional change in this commit.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240626050818.2277273-1-jiaqiyan@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240626050818.2277273-2-jiaqiyan@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jiaqi Yan <jiaqiyan@google.com>
Acked-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com>
Cc: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "Enhance soft hwpoison handling and injection", v4.
This series is aimed at the following enhancements:
- Let one hwpoison injector, that is, madvise(MADV_HWPOISON) to behave
more like as if a real UE occurred. Because the other two injectors
such as hwpoison-inject and the 'einj' on x86 can't, and it seems to me
we need a better simulation to real UE scenario.
- For years, if the kernel is unable to unmap a hwpoisoned page, it send
a SIGKILL instead of SIGBUS to prevent user process from potentially
accessing the page again. But in doing so, the user process also lose
important information: vaddr, for recovery. Fortunately, the kernel
already has code to kill process re-accessing a hwpoisoned page, so
remove the '!unmap_success' check.
- Right now, if a thp page under GUP longterm pin is hwpoisoned, and
kernel cannot split the thp page, memory-failure simply ignores the UE
and returns. That's not ideal, it could deliver a SIGBUS with useful
information for userspace recovery.
This patch (of 5):
For years when it comes down to kill a process due to hwpoison, a SIGBUS
is delivered only if unmap has been successful. Otherwise, a SIGKILL is
delivered. And the reason for that is to prevent the involved process
from accessing the hwpoisoned page again.
Since then a lot has changed, a hwpoisoned page is marked and upon being
re-accessed, the memory-failure handler invokes kill_accessing_process()
to kill the process immediately. So let's take out the '!unmap_success'
factor and try to deliver SIGBUS if possible.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240524215306.2705454-1-jane.chu@oracle.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240524215306.2705454-2-jane.chu@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Acked-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <oalvador@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
