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    mm/memory-failure: userspace controls soft-offlining pages · 56374430
    Jiaqi Yan authored
    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 inuse; 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. when 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.
    
    [jiaqiyan@google.com: v7]
      Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240628205958.2845610-3-jiaqiyan@google.com
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240626050818.2277273-3-jiaqiyan@google.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJiaqi Yan <jiaqiyan@google.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarMiaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
    Cc: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com>
    Cc: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>
    Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
    Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
    Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
    Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
    Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
    Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
    Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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