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authorMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>2016-04-28 16:18:44 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-04-28 19:34:04 -0700
commitd7e69488bd04de165667f6bc741c1c0ec6042ab9 (patch)
treeb0e9a47dee4929026faac9d46ab69e4b2b03d522 /mm
parentb06bad17c7435b600a1d7a35b56eff25e1d3dbc0 (diff)
downloadlinux-d7e69488bd04de165667f6bc741c1c0ec6042ab9.tar.gz
mm/hwpoison: fix wrong num_poisoned_pages accounting
Currently, migration code increses num_poisoned_pages on *failed*
migration page as well as successfully migrated one at the trial of
memory-failure.  It will make the stat wrong.  As well, it marks the
page as PG_HWPoison even if the migration trial failed.  It would mean
we cannot recover the corrupted page using memory-failure facility.

This patches fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/migrate.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index 6c822a7b27e0..f9dfb18a4eba 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -975,7 +975,13 @@ out:
 		dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_ISOLATED_ANON +
 				page_is_file_cache(page));
 		/* Soft-offlined page shouldn't go through lru cache list */
-		if (reason == MR_MEMORY_FAILURE) {
+		if (reason == MR_MEMORY_FAILURE && rc == MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS) {
+			/*
+			 * With this release, we free successfully migrated
+			 * page and set PG_HWPoison on just freed page
+			 * intentionally. Although it's rather weird, it's how
+			 * HWPoison flag works at the moment.
+			 */
 			put_page(page);
 			if (!test_set_page_hwpoison(page))
 				num_poisoned_pages_inc();