Merge branch 'mm-rst' into docs-next

Mike Rapoport says:

  These patches convert files in Documentation/vm to ReST format, add an
  initial index and link it to the top level documentation.

  There are no contents changes in the documentation, except few spelling
  fixes. The relatively large diffstat stems from the indentation and
  paragraph wrapping changes.

  I've tried to keep the formatting as consistent as possible, but I could
  miss some places that needed markup and add some markup where it was not
  necessary.

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+.. hwpoison:
+
+========
+hwpoison
+========
+
+What is hwpoison?
+=================
+
+Upcoming Intel CPUs have support for recovering from some memory errors
+(``MCA recovery``). This requires the OS to declare a page "poisoned",
+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.
+
+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
+pages.
+
+The main target right now is KVM guests, but it works for all kinds
+of applications. KVM support requires a recent qemu-kvm release.
+
+For the KVM use there was need for a new signal type so that
+KVM can inject the machine check into the guest with the proper
+address. This in theory allows other applications to handle
+memory failures too. The expection is that near all applications
+won't do that, but some very specialized ones might.
+
+Failure recovery modes
+======================
+
+There are two (actually three) modes memory failure recovery can be in:
+
+vm.memory_failure_recovery sysctl set to zero:
+	All memory failures cause a panic. Do not attempt recovery.
+	(on x86 this can be also affected by the tolerant level of the
+	MCE subsystem)
+
+early kill
+	(can be controlled globally and per process)
+	Send SIGBUS to the application as soon as the error is detected
+	This allows applications who can process memory errors in a gentle
+	way (e.g. drop affected object)
+	This is the mode used by KVM qemu.
+
+late kill
+	Send SIGBUS when the application runs into the corrupted page.
+	This is best for memory error unaware applications and default
+	Note some pages are always handled as late kill.
+
+User control
+============
+
+vm.memory_failure_recovery
+	See sysctl.txt
+
+vm.memory_failure_early_kill
+	Enable early kill mode globally
+
+PR_MCE_KILL
+	Set early/late kill mode/revert to system default
+
+	arg1: PR_MCE_KILL_CLEAR:
+		Revert to system default
+	arg1: PR_MCE_KILL_SET:
+		arg2 defines thread specific mode
+
+		PR_MCE_KILL_EARLY:
+			Early kill
+		PR_MCE_KILL_LATE:
+			Late kill
+		PR_MCE_KILL_DEFAULT
+			Use system global default
+
+	Note that if you want to have a dedicated thread which handles
+	the SIGBUS(BUS_MCEERR_AO) on behalf of the process, you should
+	call prctl(PR_MCE_KILL_EARLY) on the designated thread. Otherwise,
+	the SIGBUS is sent to the main thread.
+
+PR_MCE_KILL_GET
+	return current mode
+
+Testing
+=======
+
+* madvise(MADV_HWPOISON, ....) (as root) - Poison a page in the
+  process for testing
+
+* hwpoison-inject module through debugfs ``/sys/kernel/debug/hwpoison/``
+
+  corrupt-pfn
+	Inject hwpoison fault at PFN echoed into this file. This does
+	some early filtering to avoid corrupted unintended pages in test suites.
+
+  unpoison-pfn
+	Software-unpoison page at PFN echoed into this file. This way
+	a page can be reused again.  This only works for Linux
+	injected failures, not for real memory failures.
+
+  Note these injection interfaces are not stable and might change between
+  kernel versions
+
+  corrupt-filter-dev-major, corrupt-filter-dev-minor
+	Only handle memory failures to pages associated with the file
+	system defined by block device major/minor.  -1U is the
+	wildcard value.  This should be only used for testing with
+	artificial injection.
+
+  corrupt-filter-memcg
+	Limit injection to pages owned by memgroup. Specified by inode
+	number of the memcg.
+
+	Example::
+
+		mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/mem/hwpoison
+
+	        usemem -m 100 -s 1000 &
+		echo `jobs -p` > /sys/fs/cgroup/mem/hwpoison/tasks
+
+		memcg_ino=$(ls -id /sys/fs/cgroup/mem/hwpoison | cut -f1 -d' ')
+		echo $memcg_ino > /debug/hwpoison/corrupt-filter-memcg
+
+		page-types -p `pidof init`   --hwpoison  # shall do nothing
+		page-types -p `pidof usemem` --hwpoison  # poison its pages
+
+  corrupt-filter-flags-mask, corrupt-filter-flags-value
+	When specified, only poison pages if ((page_flags & mask) ==
+	value).  This allows stress testing of many kinds of
+	pages. The page_flags are the same as in /proc/kpageflags. The
+	flag bits are defined in include/linux/kernel-page-flags.h and
+	documented in Documentation/vm/pagemap.rst
+
+* Architecture specific MCE injector
+
+  x86 has mce-inject, mce-test
+
+  Some portable hwpoison test programs in mce-test, see below.
+
+References
+==========
+
+http://halobates.de/mce-lc09-2.pdf
+	Overview presentation from LinuxCon 09
+
+git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/cpu/mce/mce-test.git
+	Test suite (hwpoison specific portable tests in tsrc)
+
+git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/cpu/mce/mce-inject.git
+	x86 specific injector
+
+
+Limitations
+===========
+- Not all page types are supported and never will. Most kernel internal
+  objects cannot be recovered, only LRU pages for now.
+- Right now hugepage support is missing.
+
+---
+Andi Kleen, Oct 2009