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Commit 9690e6ff authored by Naoya Horiguchi's avatar Naoya Horiguchi Committed by Sasha Levin
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mm/hwpoison: retry with shake_page() for unhandlable pages

[ Upstream commit fcc00621 ]

HWPoisonHandlable() sometimes returns false for typical user pages due
to races with average memory events like transfers over LRU lists.  This
causes failures in hwpoison handling.

There's retry code for such a case but does not work because the retry
loop reaches the retry limit too quickly before the page settles down to
handlable state.  Let get_any_page() call shake_page() to fix it.

[naoya.horiguchi@nec.com: get_any_page(): return -EIO when retry limit reached]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210819001958.2365157-1-naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210817053703.2267588-1-naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev


Fixes: 25182f05 ("mm,hwpoison: fix race with hugetlb page allocation")
Signed-off-by: default avatarNaoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Reported-by: default avatarTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarYang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>		[5.13+]
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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