On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 01:39:24PM -0400, Qian Cai wrote:

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 03:11:40AM +0000, HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也) wrote:

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I'm still not sure why the test succeeded by reverting these because
current mainline kernel provides similar mechanism to prevent reuse of
soft offlined page. So this success seems to me something suspicious.

To investigate more, I want to have additional info about the page states
of the relevant pages after soft offlining.  Could you collect it by the
following steps?

  - modify random.c not to run hotplug_memory() in migrate_huge_hotplug_memory(),
  - compile it and run "./random 1" once,
  - to collect page state with hwpoisoned pages, run "./page-types -Nlr -b hwpoison",
    where page-types is available under tools/vm in kernel source tree.
  - choose a few pfns of soft offlined pages from kernel message
    "Soft offlining pfn ...", and run "./page-types -Nlr -a <pfn>".

# ./page-types -Nlr -b hwpoison
offset	len	flags
99a000	1	__________B________X_______________________
99c000	1	__________B________X_______________________
99e000	1	__________B________X_______________________
9a0000	1	__________B________X_______________________
ba6000	1	__________B________X_______________________
baa000	1	__________B________X_______________________

Thank you.  It only shows 6 lines of records, which is unexpected to me
because random.c iterates soft offline 2 hugepages with madvise() 1000 times.
Somehow (maybe in arch specific way?) other hwpoisoned pages might be cleared?
If they really are, the success of this test is a fake, and this patchset
can be considered as a fix.

Every single one of pfns was like this,

# ./page-types -Nlr -a 0x99a000
offset	len	flags
99a000	1	__________B________X_______________________

# ./page-types -Nlr -a 0x99e000
offset	len	flags
99e000	1	__________B________X_______________________

# ./page-types -Nlr -a 0x99c000
offset	len	flags
99c000	1	__________B________X_______________________

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