Re: [PATCH v17 5/9] mm: hugetlb: set the PageHWPoison to the raw error page

From: Balbir Singh
Date: Sun Mar 07 2021 - 03:20:38 EST


On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 09:21:26PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> Because we reuse the first tail vmemmap page frame and remap it
> with read-only, we cannot set the PageHWPosion on some tail pages.
> So we can use the head[4].private (There are at least 128 struct
> page structures associated with the optimized HugeTLB page, so
> using head[4].private is safe) to record the real error page index
> and set the raw error page PageHWPoison later.
>

Does the hardcoding of 4 come from HUGETLB_CGROUP_MIN_ORDER, if so
do we need to hardcode 4? Also, I am not sure about the comment
on safety and 128 struct pages

Balbir