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From: "Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <kas@kernel.org>
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Subject: [RFC PATCH 08/18] mm/memory-failure: handle folios with PG_rcu_free
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:49:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261019154913.1765974-9-kas@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261019154913.1765974-1-kas@kernel.org>

A page whose free waits for an RCU grace period has refcount 0 and is
neither on the LRU nor in the buddy allocator.  memory_failure() and
soft_offline_page() cannot handle such a page: get_any_page() retries a
few times and gives up.  Soft offline of the page fails, and a hard
error is ignored.  If the page is part of a large folio, the folio is
later freed with the poisoned page in it, and that page can be handed
out again.

Free the waiting pages first when the page looks like one of them.
memory_failure() has to do it before it sets PG_hwpoison.  The free of a
poisoned order-0 page drops the page instead of returning it to the
buddy allocator, so a later drain would still leave the error ignored.

A folio with PG_rcu_free that is still in use may be copied by a reader
that holds no reference.  When memory_failure() succeeds, its caller can
unmap the page from the direct map under such a reader.  Wait for a
grace period before returning success.  By then the page has left the
page cache, or is an order-0 folio with PG_hwpoison, which a reader that
starts after the grace period has to check.

Wait at the end, not right after setting PG_hwpoison.  A large folio is
split later, and until the new folios are in the page cache, a reader
can still copy the poisoned page as part of the large one.

Both callers hold mf_mutex and can wait for the grace period.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@kernel.org>
---
 mm/memory-failure.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index 7dde7c3c9a0c..dc66cac05b1f 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -1565,6 +1565,21 @@ static int get_hwpoison_page(struct page *p, unsigned long flags)
 	return ret;
 }
 
+/* A page waiting for a grace period is not in the buddy yet: free it */
+static void mf_free_rcu_pages(struct page *p)
+{
+	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PAGE_RCU_FREE))
+		return;
+	if (page_count(p))
+		return;
+	if (!zone_page_state_snapshot(page_zone(p), NR_FREE_RCU_PAGES))
+		return;
+	if (is_free_buddy_page(p))
+		return;
+
+	rcu_free_sync();
+}
+
 /*
  * The caller must guarantee the folio isn't large folio, except hugetlb.
  * try_to_unmap() can't handle it.
@@ -2440,6 +2455,7 @@ int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
 	if (res != -ENOENT)
 		goto unlock_mutex;
 
+	mf_free_rcu_pages(p);
 	if (TestSetPageHWPoison(p)) {
 		res = -EHWPOISON;
 		if (flags & MF_ACTION_REQUIRED)
@@ -2612,6 +2628,13 @@ int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
 
 identify_page_state:
 	res = identify_page_state(pfn, p, page_flags);
+	/*
+	 * The caller may unmap the page once this returns 0.  Lockless
+	 * readers that started before the page got PG_hwpoison, or before a
+	 * split left it in a folio of its own, may still be copying it.
+	 */
+	if (!res && folio_test_rcu_free(folio))
+		synchronize_rcu();
 	mutex_unlock(&mf_mutex);
 	return res;
 unlock_page:
@@ -3003,6 +3026,7 @@ int soft_offline_page(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
 
 retry:
 	get_online_mems();
+	mf_free_rcu_pages(page);
 	ret = get_hwpoison_page(page, flags | MF_SOFT_OFFLINE);
 	put_online_mems();
 
-- 
2.54.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-19 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-19 15:48 [RFC PATCH 00/18] mm: read the page cache without folio references Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)
2026-10-19 15:48 ` [RFC PATCH 01/18] mm: free PG_rcu_free folios only after an RCU grace period Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)
2026-10-19 15:48 ` [RFC PATCH 02/18] splice: don't steal page cache folios Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)
2026-10-19 15:48 ` [RFC PATCH 03/18] fuse: don't move a folio with PG_rcu_free into a fuse file Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)
2026-10-19 15:48 ` [RFC PATCH 04/18] mm: count the pages waiting for a grace period Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)
2026-10-19 15:48 ` [RFC PATCH 05/18] mm: expedite the grace period when a CPU has many deferred frees Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)
2026-10-19 15:48 ` [RFC PATCH 06/18] mm: free the pages waiting for a grace period before OOM Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)
2026-10-19 15:49 ` [RFC PATCH 07/18] mm: free the pages waiting for a grace period before isolation fails Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)
2026-10-19 15:49 ` Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) [this message]
2026-10-19 15:49 ` [RFC PATCH 09/18] mm: have folio_mark_accessed() return whether the folio is hot Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)
2026-10-19 15:49 ` [RFC PATCH 10/18] mm/filemap: mark a folio accessed in one place in filemap_read() Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)
2026-10-19 15:49 ` [RFC PATCH 11/18] mm/filemap: set PG_rcu_free on the folios that reads keep coming back to Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)
2026-10-19 15:49 ` [RFC PATCH 12/18] mm/filemap: don't defer the free of folios of an inode being evicted Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)
2026-10-19 15:49 ` [RFC PATCH 13/18] mm/filemap: store the end of a read in f_ra only when it changes Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)
2026-10-19 15:49 ` [RFC PATCH 14/18] mm/filemap: read from the page cache without folio references Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)
2026-10-19 15:49 ` [RFC PATCH 15/18] mm/filemap: read large folios " Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)
2026-10-19 15:49 ` [RFC PATCH 16/18] mm/shmem: count accesses to a folio the way filemap_read() does Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)
2026-10-19 15:49 ` [RFC PATCH 17/18] mm/shmem: read without folio references Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)
2026-10-19 15:49 ` [RFC PATCH 18/18] mm/filemap: add a debugfs switch for lockless page cache reads Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)
2026-10-19 21:20 ` [RFC PATCH 00/18] mm: read the page cache without folio references Harry Yoo

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