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Patch series "Userspace controls soft-offline pages", v6.
Correctable memory errors are very common on servers with large amount of
memory, and are corrected by ECC, but with two pain points to users:
1. Correction usually happens on the fly and adds latency overhead
2. Not-fully-proved theory states excessive correctable memory
errors can develop into uncorrectable memory error.
Soft offline is kernel's additional solution for memory pages having
(excessive) corrected memory errors. Impacted page is migrated to healthy
page if it is in use, then 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 mmap hugepages MAP_FAILED 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:
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 patch series give 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 called enable_soft_offline under /proc/sys/vm. By default
enable_soft_line is 1 to preserve existing behavior in kernel.
This patch (of 4):
Logs from soft_offline_page and soft_offline_in_use_page have different
formats than majority of the memory failure code:
"Memory failure: 0x${pfn}: ${lower_case_message}"
Convert them to the following format:
"Soft offline: 0x${pfn}: ${lower_case_message}"
No functional change in this commit.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240626050818.2277273-1-jiaqiyan@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240626050818.2277273-2-jiaqiyan@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jiaqi Yan <jiaqiyan@google.com>
Acked-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: David 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: 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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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