[PATCH 0/3] recover hardware corrupted page by virtio balloon

zhenwei pi
Fri, 27 May 2022 03:47:04 -0000

Hi, Andrew & Naoya

I would appreciate it if you could give me any hint about the changes of
memory/memory-failure!

On 5/20/22 15:06, zhenwei pi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to recover hardware corrupted page by virtio balloon, the
> workflow of this feature like this:
>
> Guest              5.MF -> 6.RVQ FE    10.Unpoison page
>                      /           \            /
> -------------------+-------------+----------+-----------
>                     |             |          |
>                  4.MCE        7.RVQ BE   9.RVQ Event
>   QEMU             /               \       /
>               3.SIGBUS              8.Remap
>                  /
> ----------------+------------------------------------
>                  |
>              +--2.MF
>   Host       /
>         1.HW error
>
> 1, HardWare page error occurs randomly.
> 2, host side handles corrupted page by Memory Failure mechanism, sends
>     SIGBUS to the user process if early-kill is enabled.
> 3, QEMU handles SIGBUS, if the address belongs to guest RAM, then:
> 4, QEMU tries to inject MCE into guest.
> 5, guest handles memory failure again.
>
> 1-5 is already supported for a long time, the next steps are supported
> in this patch(also related driver patch):
>
> 6, guest balloon driver gets noticed of the corrupted PFN, and sends
>     request to host side by Recover VQ FrontEnd.
> 7, QEMU handles request from Recover VQ BackEnd, then:
> 8, QEMU remaps the corrupted HVA fo fix the memory failure, then:
> 9, QEMU acks the guest side the result by Recover VQ.
> 10, guest unpoisons the page if the corrupted page gets recoverd
>      successfully.
>
> Test:
> This patch set can be tested with QEMU(also in developing):
> https://github.com/pizhenwei/qemu/tree/balloon-recover
>
> Emulate MCE by QEMU(guest RAM normal page only, hugepage is not supported):
> virsh qemu-monitor-command vm --hmp mce 0 9 0xbd000000000000c0 0xd
0x61646678 0x8c
>
> The guest works fine(on Intel Platinum 8260):
>   mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
>   Memory failure: 0x61646: recovery action for dirty LRU page: Recovered
>   virtio_balloon virtio5: recovered pfn 0x61646
>   Unpoison: Unpoisoned page 0x61646 by virtio-balloon
>   MCE: Killing stress:24502 due to hardware memory corruption fault at
7f5be2e5a010
>
> And the 'HardwareCorrupted' in /proc/meminfo also shows 0 kB.
>
> About the protocol of virtio balloon recover VQ, it's undefined and in
> developing currently:
> - 'struct virtio_balloon_recover' defines the structure which is
used to
>    exchange message between guest and host.
> - '__le32 corrupted_pages' in struct virtio_balloon_config is used
in the next
>    step:
>    1, a VM uses RAM of 2M huge page, once a MCE occurs, the 2M becomes
>       unaccessible. Reporting 512 * 4K 'corrupted_pages' to the
guest, the guest
>       has a chance to isolate the 512 pages ahead of time.
>
>    2, after migrating to another host, the corrupted pages are actually
recovered,
>       once the guest gets the 'corrupted_pages' with 0, then the
guest could
>       unpoison all the poisoned pages which are recorded in the balloon
driver.
>
> zhenwei pi (3):
>    memory-failure: Introduce memory failure notifier
>    mm/memory-failure.c: support reset PTE during unpoison
>    virtio_balloon: Introduce memory recover
>
>   drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c     | 243 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   include/linux/mm.h                  |   4 +-
>   include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h |  16 ++
>   mm/hwpoison-inject.c                |   2 +-
>   mm/memory-failure.c                 |  59 ++++++-
>   5 files changed, 315 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>

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zhenwei pi