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Commit 2a7684a2 authored by Wu Fengguang's avatar Wu Fengguang Committed by Andi Kleen
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HWPOISON: check and isolate corrupted free pages v2



If memory corruption hits the free buddy pages, we can safely ignore them.
No one will access them until page allocation time, then prep_new_page()
will automatically check and isolate PG_hwpoison page for us (for 0-order
allocation).

This patch expands prep_new_page() to check every component page in a high
order page allocation, in order to completely stop PG_hwpoison pages from
being recirculated.

Note that the common case -- only allocating a single page, doesn't
do any more work than before. Allocating > order 0 does a bit more work,
but that's relatively uncommon.

This simple implementation may drop some innocent neighbor pages, hopefully
it is not a big problem because the event should be rare enough.

This patch adds some runtime costs to high order page users.

[AK: Improved description]

v2: Andi Kleen:
Port to -mm code
Move check into separate function.
Don't dump stack in bad_pages for hwpoisoned pages.
Signed-off-by: default avatarWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
parent 888b9f7c
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