Commit d95ea51e authored by Wu Fengguang's avatar Wu Fengguang Committed by Andi Kleen
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HWPOISON: make semantics of IGNORED/DELAYED clear 



Change semantics for
- IGNORED: not handled; it may well be _unsafe_
- DELAYED: to be handled later; it is _safe_

With this change,
- IGNORED/FAILED mean (maybe) Error
- DELAYED/RECOVERED mean Success

Signed-off-by: default avatarWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
parent 847ce401

mm/memory-failure.c

+7 −15
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -336,16 +336,16 @@ static void collect_procs(struct page *page, struct list_head *tokill) 
 */



enum outcome {

	FAILED,		/* Error handling failed */

	IGNORED,	/* Error: cannot be handled */

	FAILED,		/* Error: handling failed */

	DELAYED,	/* Will be handled later */

	IGNORED,	/* Error safely ignored */

	RECOVERED,	/* Successfully recovered */

};



static const char *action_name[] = {

	[IGNORED] = "Ignored",

	[FAILED] = "Failed",

	[DELAYED] = "Delayed",

	[IGNORED] = "Ignored",

	[RECOVERED] = "Recovered",

};
@@ -379,14 +379,6 @@ static int delete_from_lru_cache(struct page *p) 
 * could be more sophisticated.

 */

static int me_kernel(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn)

{

	return DELAYED;

}



/*

 * Already poisoned page.

 */

static int me_ignore(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn)

{

	return IGNORED;

}
@@ -604,7 +596,7 @@ static struct page_state { 
	char *msg;

	int (*action)(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn);

} error_states[] = {

	{ reserved,	reserved,	"reserved kernel",	me_ignore },

	{ reserved,	reserved,	"reserved kernel",	me_kernel },

	/*

	 * free pages are specially detected outside this table:

	 * PG_buddy pages only make a small fraction of all free pages.
@@ -788,7 +780,7 @@ int __memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int trapno, int flags) 


	p = pfn_to_page(pfn);

	if (TestSetPageHWPoison(p)) {

		action_result(pfn, "already hardware poisoned", IGNORED);

		printk(KERN_ERR "MCE %#lx: already hardware poisoned\n", pfn);

		return 0;

	}
@@ -843,7 +835,7 @@ int __memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int trapno, int flags) 
	 * unpoison always clear PG_hwpoison inside page lock

	 */

	if (!PageHWPoison(p)) {

		action_result(pfn, "unpoisoned", IGNORED);

		printk(KERN_ERR "MCE %#lx: just unpoisoned\n", pfn);

		res = 0;

		goto out;

	}
@@ -865,7 +857,7 @@ int __memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int trapno, int flags) 
	 */

	if (PageLRU(p) && !PageSwapCache(p) && p->mapping == NULL) {

		action_result(pfn, "already truncated LRU", IGNORED);

		res = 0;

		res = -EBUSY;

		goto out;

	}

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