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| author | Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> | 2014-06-04 16:11:02 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-06-04 16:54:13 -0700 |
| commit | 3ba08129e38437561df44c36b7ea9081185d5333 (patch) | |
| tree | 01835605410c1a55e47e44304e075e01a28ddca2 /Documentation/vm | |
| parent | 74614de17db6fb472370c426d4f934d8d616edf2 (diff) | |
mm/memory-failure.c: support use of a dedicated thread to handle SIGBUS(BUS_MCEERR_AO)
Currently memory error handler handles action optional errors in the
deferred manner by default. And if a recovery aware application wants
to handle it immediately, it can do it by setting PF_MCE_EARLY flag.
However, such signal can be sent only to the main thread, so it's
problematic if the application wants to have a dedicated thread to
handler such signals.
So this patch adds dedicated thread support to memory error handler. We
have PF_MCE_EARLY flags for each thread separately, so with this patch
AO signal is sent to the thread with PF_MCE_EARLY flag set, not the main
thread. If you want to implement a dedicated thread, you call prctl()
to set PF_MCE_EARLY on the thread.
Memory error handler collects processes to be killed, so this patch lets
it check PF_MCE_EARLY flag on each thread in the collecting routines.
No behavioral change for all non-early kill cases.
Tony said:
: The old behavior was crazy - someone with a multithreaded process might
: well expect that if they call prctl(PF_MCE_EARLY) in just one thread, then
: that thread would see the SIGBUS with si_code = BUS_MCEERR_A0 - even if
: that thread wasn't the main thread for the process.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Kamil Iskra <iskra@mcs.anl.gov>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.jf.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.2+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt index 550068466605..6ae89a9edf2a 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt @@ -84,6 +84,11 @@ PR_MCE_KILL PR_MCE_KILL_EARLY: Early kill PR_MCE_KILL_LATE: Late kill PR_MCE_KILL_DEFAULT: Use system global default + Note that if you want to have a dedicated thread which handles + the SIGBUS(BUS_MCEERR_AO) on behalf of the process, you should + call prctl(PR_MCE_KILL_EARLY) on the designated thread. Otherwise, + the SIGBUS is sent to the main thread. + PR_MCE_KILL_GET return current mode |