mm,hwpoison: make get_hwpoison_page() call get_any_page()

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__get_hwpoison_page() could fail to grab refcount by some race condition,
so it's helpful if we can handle it by retrying.  We already have retry
logic, so make get_hwpoison_page() call get_any_page() when called from
memory_failure().

As a result, get_hwpoison_page() can return negative values (i.e.  error
code), so some callers are also changed to handle error cases.
soft_offline_page() does nothing for -EBUSY because that's enough and
users in userspace can easily handle it.  unpoison_memory() is also
unchanged because it's broken and need thorough fixes (will be done
later).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210603233632.2964832-3-nao.horiguchi@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.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: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Naoya Horiguchi 2021-06-28 19:43:17 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds

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