Re: [PATCH -next resend v3] mm: hwposion: support recovery from ksm_might_need_to_copy()

[Kefeng Wang]

On 2023/2/1 8:32, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2022 20:05:23 +0800 Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > When the kernel copy a page from ksm_might_need_to_copy(), but runs
> > into an uncorrectable error, it will crash since poisoned page is
> > consumed by kernel, this is similar to Copy-on-write poison recovery,
> > When an error is detected during the page copy, return VM_FAULT_HWPOISON
> > in do_swap_page(), and install a hwpoison entry in unuse_pte() when
> > swapoff, which help us to avoid system crash. Note, memory failure on
> > a KSM page will be skipped, but still call memory_failure_queue() to
> > be consistent with general memory failure process.
>
> I believe we're awaiting a v4 of this?

Sorry, forget this one.
> Did we consider a -stable backport?  "kernel crash" sounds undesirable...

This one depends on Copy-on-write poison recovery patchset, and I check 
the commit a873dfe1032a ("mm, hwpoison: try to recover from copy-on 
write faults") is not included into stable, and both of them are 
enhancement of COPY_MC feature, so it seems that we don't need to
backport to stable.

> Can we identify a Fixes: target for this?

As it is a part of COPY_MC, I don't think it is need a Fixes tag.

I will resend a new one to address the comments of  HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 
直也).

Thanks.