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mm/memory-failure: add panic option for unrecoverable pages

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Add a sysctl panic_on_unrecoverable_memory_failure (disabled by default)
that triggers a kernel panic when memory_failure() encounters pages that
cannot be recovered.  This provides a clean crash with useful debug
information rather than allowing silent data corruption or a delayed crash
at an unrelated code path.

Panic eligibility is intentionally narrow: only MF_MSG_KERNEL with result
== MF_IGNORED panics.  After the previous patch, MF_MSG_KERNEL covers
PG_reserved pages and the kernel-owned pages promoted from
get_hwpoison_page() via -ENOTRECOVERABLE (slab, page tables,
large-kmalloc).

All other action types are excluded:

- MF_MSG_GET_HWPOISON and MF_MSG_KERNEL_HIGH_ORDER can be reached by
  transient refcount races with the page allocator (an in-flight buddy
  allocation has refcount 0 and is no longer on the buddy free list,
  briefly), and panicking on them would risk killing the box for what
  is actually a recoverable userspace page.

- MF_MSG_UNKNOWN means identify_page_state() could not classify the
  page; that is precisely the wrong basis for a panic decision.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260630-ecc_panic-v10-4-c6ed5b62eea2@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Acked-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Breno Leitao 2026-06-30 05:46:07 -07:00 • committed by Andrew Morton
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