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 it is in-use; 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. 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.
Signed-off-by: Jiaqi Yan jiaqiyan@google.com --- mm/memory-failure.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c index d3c830e817e3..9eb216ed0b86 100644 --- a/mm/memory-failure.c +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c @@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ static int sysctl_memory_failure_early_kill __read_mostly;
static int sysctl_memory_failure_recovery __read_mostly = 1;
+static int sysctl_enable_soft_offline __read_mostly = 1; + atomic_long_t num_poisoned_pages __read_mostly = ATOMIC_LONG_INIT(0);
static bool hw_memory_failure __read_mostly = false; @@ -141,6 +143,15 @@ static struct ctl_table memory_failure_table[] = { .extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO, .extra2 = SYSCTL_ONE, }, + { + .procname = "enable_soft_offline", + .data = &sysctl_enable_soft_offline, + .maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_enable_soft_offline), + .mode = 0644, + .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax, + .extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO, + .extra2 = SYSCTL_ONE, + } };
/* @@ -2746,8 +2757,9 @@ static int soft_offline_in_use_page(struct page *page) * @pfn: pfn to soft-offline * @flags: flags. Same as memory_failure(). * - * Returns 0 on success - * -EOPNOTSUPP for hwpoison_filter() filtered the error event + * Returns 0 on success, + * -EOPNOTSUPP for hwpoison_filter() filtered the error event, + * -EOPNOTSUPP if disabled by /proc/sys/vm/enable_soft_offline, * < 0 otherwise negated errno. * * Soft offline a page, by migration or invalidation, @@ -2783,6 +2795,12 @@ int soft_offline_page(unsigned long pfn, int flags) return -EIO; }
+ if (!sysctl_enable_soft_offline) { + pr_info("%#lx: OS-wide disabled\n", pfn); + put_ref_page(pfn, flags); + return -EOPNOTSUPP; + } + mutex_lock(&mf_mutex);
if (PageHWPoison(page)) {