Patch series "hwpoison: fixes signaling on memory error"
This is a small patchset to solve issues in memory error handler to send
SIGBUS to proper process/thread as expected in configuration. Please
see descriptions in individual patches for more details.
This patch (of 2):
Early-kill policy is controlled from two types of settings, one is
per-process setting prctl(PR_MCE_KILL) and the other is system-wide
setting vm.memory_failure_early_kill. Users expect per-process setting
to override system-wide setting as many other settings do, but
early-kill setting doesn't work as such.
For example, if a system configures vm.memory_failure_early_kill to 1
(enabled), a process receives SIGBUS even if it's configured to
explicitly disable PF_MCE_KILL by prctl(). That's not desirable for
applications with their own policies.
This patch is suggesting to change the priority of these two types of
settings, by checking sysctl_memory_failure_early_kill only when a given
process has the default kill policy.
Note that this patch is solving a thread choice issue too.
Originally, collect_procs() always chooses the main thread when
vm.memory_failure_early_kill is 1, even if the process has a dedicated
thread for memory error handling. SIGBUS should be sent to the
dedicated thread if early-kill is enabled via
vm.memory_failure_early_kill as we are doing for PR_MCE_KILL_EARLY
processes.
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1591321039-22141-1-git-send-email-naoya.horiguchi@nec.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1591321039-22141-2-git-send-email-naoya.horiguchi@nec.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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