[PATCH 1/1] arch/fault: don't print logs for simulated poison errors
Peter Xu
peterx at redhat.com
Fri May 10 07:05:46 AEST 2024
On Thu, May 09, 2024 at 01:39:07PM -0700, Axel Rasmussen wrote:
> For real MCEs, various architectures print log messages when poisoned
> memory is accessed (which results in a SIGBUS). These messages can be
> important for users to understand the issue.
>
> On the other hand, we have the userfaultfd UFFDIO_POISON operation,
> which can "simulate" memory poisoning. That particular process will get
It also coveres swapin errors as we talked before, so not always SIM.
I was thinking we should also do that report for swapin errors, however
then I noticed it wasn't reported before the replacement of pte markers,
in commit 15520a3f04, since 2022:
@@ -3727,8 +3731,6 @@ vm_fault_t do_swap_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
put_page(vmf->page);
} else if (is_hwpoison_entry(entry)) {
ret = VM_FAULT_HWPOISON;
- } else if (is_swapin_error_entry(entry)) {
- ret = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
} else if (is_pte_marker_entry(entry)) {
ret = handle_pte_marker(vmf);
} else {
So I am guessing it could be fine to just turn this report off to syslog.
There will be a back-and-forth on this behavior, but hopefully this is even
rarer than hwpoison so nobody will notice.
With that, the idea looks valid to me, but perhaps a rename is needed.
Maybe _QUIESCE or _SILENT?
> SIGBUS on access to the memory, but this effect is tied to an MM, rather
> than being global like a real poison event. So, we don't want to log
> about this case to the global kernel log; instead, let the process
> itself log or whatever else it wants to do. This avoids spamming the
> kernel log, and avoids e.g. drowning out real events with simulated
> ones.
>
> To identify this situation, add a new VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_SIM flag. This
> is expected to be set *in addition to* one of the existing
> VM_FAULT_HWPOISON or VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE flags (which are mutually
> exclusive).
>
> Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen at google.com>
> ---
> arch/parisc/mm/fault.c | 7 +++++--
> arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c | 6 ++++--
> arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 6 ++++--
> include/linux/mm_types.h | 5 +++++
> mm/hugetlb.c | 3 ++-
> mm/memory.c | 2 +-
> 6 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/parisc/mm/fault.c b/arch/parisc/mm/fault.c
> index c39de84e98b0..e5370bcadf27 100644
> --- a/arch/parisc/mm/fault.c
> +++ b/arch/parisc/mm/fault.c
> @@ -400,9 +400,12 @@ void do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long code,
> #ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE
> if (fault & (VM_FAULT_HWPOISON|VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE)) {
> unsigned int lsb = 0;
> - printk(KERN_ERR
> +
> + if (!(fault & VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_SIM)) {
> + pr_err(
> "MCE: Killing %s:%d due to hardware memory corruption fault at %08lx\n",
> - tsk->comm, tsk->pid, address);
> + tsk->comm, tsk->pid, address);
> + }
> /*
> * Either small page or large page may be poisoned.
> * In other words, VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE and
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
> index 53335ae21a40..ac5e8a3c7fba 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
> @@ -140,8 +140,10 @@ static int do_sigbus(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
> if (fault & (VM_FAULT_HWPOISON|VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE)) {
> unsigned int lsb = 0; /* shutup gcc */
>
> - pr_err("MCE: Killing %s:%d due to hardware memory corruption fault at %lx\n",
> - current->comm, current->pid, address);
> + if (!(fault & VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_SIM)) {
> + pr_err("MCE: Killing %s:%d due to hardware memory corruption fault at %lx\n",
> + current->comm, current->pid, address);
> + }
>
> if (fault & VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE)
> lsb = hstate_index_to_shift(VM_FAULT_GET_HINDEX(fault));
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> index e4f3c7721f45..16d077a3ad14 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> @@ -928,9 +928,11 @@ do_sigbus(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code, unsigned long address,
> struct task_struct *tsk = current;
> unsigned lsb = 0;
>
> - pr_err_ratelimited(
> + if (!(fault & VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_SIM)) {
> + pr_err_ratelimited(
> "MCE: Killing %s:%d due to hardware memory corruption fault at %lx\n",
> - tsk->comm, tsk->pid, address);
> + tsk->comm, tsk->pid, address);
> + }
> if (fault & VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE)
> lsb = hstate_index_to_shift(VM_FAULT_GET_HINDEX(fault));
> if (fault & VM_FAULT_HWPOISON)
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
> index 5240bd7bca33..7f8fc3efc5b2 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
> @@ -1226,6 +1226,9 @@ typedef __bitwise unsigned int vm_fault_t;
> * @VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE: Hit poisoned large page. Index encoded
> * in upper bits
> * @VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV: segmentation fault
> + * @VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_SIM Hit poisoned, PTE marker; this indicates a
> + * simulated poison (e.g. via usefaultfd's
> + * UFFDIO_POISON), not a "real" hwerror.
> * @VM_FAULT_NOPAGE: ->fault installed the pte, not return page
> * @VM_FAULT_LOCKED: ->fault locked the returned page
> * @VM_FAULT_RETRY: ->fault blocked, must retry
> @@ -1245,6 +1248,7 @@ enum vm_fault_reason {
> VM_FAULT_HWPOISON = (__force vm_fault_t)0x000010,
> VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE = (__force vm_fault_t)0x000020,
> VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV = (__force vm_fault_t)0x000040,
> + VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_SIM = (__force vm_fault_t)0x000080,
> VM_FAULT_NOPAGE = (__force vm_fault_t)0x000100,
> VM_FAULT_LOCKED = (__force vm_fault_t)0x000200,
> VM_FAULT_RETRY = (__force vm_fault_t)0x000400,
> @@ -1270,6 +1274,7 @@ enum vm_fault_reason {
> { VM_FAULT_HWPOISON, "HWPOISON" }, \
> { VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE, "HWPOISON_LARGE" }, \
> { VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, "SIGSEGV" }, \
> + { VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_SIM, "HWPOISON_SIM" }, \
> { VM_FAULT_NOPAGE, "NOPAGE" }, \
> { VM_FAULT_LOCKED, "LOCKED" }, \
> { VM_FAULT_RETRY, "RETRY" }, \
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index 65456230cc71..2b4e0173e806 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -6485,7 +6485,8 @@ vm_fault_t hugetlb_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> pte_marker_get(pte_to_swp_entry(entry));
>
> if (marker & PTE_MARKER_POISONED) {
> - ret = VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE |
> + ret = VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_SIM |
> + VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE |
> VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX(hstate_index(h));
> goto out_mutex;
> }
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index d2155ced45f8..29a833b996ae 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -3910,7 +3910,7 @@ static vm_fault_t handle_pte_marker(struct vm_fault *vmf)
>
> /* Higher priority than uffd-wp when data corrupted */
> if (marker & PTE_MARKER_POISONED)
> - return VM_FAULT_HWPOISON;
> + return VM_FAULT_HWPOISON | VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_SIM;
>
> if (pte_marker_entry_uffd_wp(entry))
> return pte_marker_handle_uffd_wp(vmf);
> --
> 2.45.0.118.g7fe29c98d7-goog
>
--
Peter Xu
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