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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst index 09bd24a92784..a5c884293dac 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst @@ -13,32 +13,32 @@ kill the processes associated with it and avoid using it in the future. This patchkit implements the necessary infrastructure in the VM. -To quote the overview comment: - - * High level machine check handler. Handles pages reported by the - * hardware as being corrupted usually due to a 2bit ECC memory or cache - * failure. - * - * This focusses on pages detected as corrupted in the background. - * When the current CPU tries to consume corruption the currently - * running process can just be killed directly instead. This implies - * that if the error cannot be handled for some reason it's safe to - * just ignore it because no corruption has been consumed yet. Instead - * when that happens another machine check will happen. - * - * Handles page cache pages in various states. The tricky part - * here is that we can access any page asynchronous to other VM - * users, because memory failures could happen anytime and anywhere, - * possibly violating some of their assumptions. This is why this code - * has to be extremely careful. Generally it tries to use normal locking - * rules, as in get the standard locks, even if that means the - * error handling takes potentially a long time. - * - * Some of the operations here are somewhat inefficient and have non - * linear algorithmic complexity, because the data structures have not - * been optimized for this case. This is in particular the case - * for the mapping from a vma to a process. Since this case is expected - * to be rare we hope we can get away with this. +To quote the overview comment:: + + High level machine check handler. Handles pages reported by the + hardware as being corrupted usually due to a 2bit ECC memory or cache + failure. + + This focusses on pages detected as corrupted in the background. + When the current CPU tries to consume corruption the currently + running process can just be killed directly instead. This implies + that if the error cannot be handled for some reason it's safe to + just ignore it because no corruption has been consumed yet. Instead + when that happens another machine check will happen. + + Handles page cache pages in various states. The tricky part + here is that we can access any page asynchronous to other VM + users, because memory failures could happen anytime and anywhere, + possibly violating some of their assumptions. This is why this code + has to be extremely careful. Generally it tries to use normal locking + rules, as in get the standard locks, even if that means the + error handling takes potentially a long time. + + Some of the operations here are somewhat inefficient and have non + linear algorithmic complexity, because the data structures have not + been optimized for this case. This is in particular the case + for the mapping from a vma to a process. Since this case is expected + to be rare we hope we can get away with this. The code consists of a the high level handler in mm/memory-failure.c, a new page poison bit and various checks in the VM to handle poisoned |