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authorKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>2009-04-30 15:08:51 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-05-02 15:36:10 -0700
commit00a62ce91e554198ef28234c91c36f850f5a3bc9 (patch)
tree367ef134219deef91903c3fa0eb108c13658f2c7 /mm/nommu.c
parent0763ed2355198cdef2f6a2098e9d52eb1fe4365d (diff)
mm: fix Committed_AS underflow on large NR_CPUS environment
The Committed_AS field can underflow in certain situations: > # while true; do cat /proc/meminfo | grep _AS; sleep 1; done | uniq -c > 1 Committed_AS: 18446744073709323392 kB > 11 Committed_AS: 18446744073709455488 kB > 6 Committed_AS: 35136 kB > 5 Committed_AS: 18446744073709454400 kB > 7 Committed_AS: 35904 kB > 3 Committed_AS: 18446744073709453248 kB > 2 Committed_AS: 34752 kB > 9 Committed_AS: 18446744073709453248 kB > 8 Committed_AS: 34752 kB > 3 Committed_AS: 18446744073709320960 kB > 7 Committed_AS: 18446744073709454080 kB > 3 Committed_AS: 18446744073709320960 kB > 5 Committed_AS: 18446744073709454080 kB > 6 Committed_AS: 18446744073709320960 kB Because NR_CPUS can be greater than 1000 and meminfo_proc_show() does not check for underflow. But NR_CPUS proportional isn't good calculation. In general, possibility of lock contention is proportional to the number of online cpus, not theorical maximum cpus (NR_CPUS). The current kernel has generic percpu-counter stuff. using it is right way. it makes code simplify and percpu_counter_read_positive() don't make underflow issue. Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [All kernel versions] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/nommu.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/nommu.c13
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index 72eda4aee2c..809998aa7b5 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ void *high_memory;
struct page *mem_map;
unsigned long max_mapnr;
unsigned long num_physpages;
-atomic_long_t vm_committed_space = ATOMIC_LONG_INIT(0);
+struct percpu_counter vm_committed_as;
int sysctl_overcommit_memory = OVERCOMMIT_GUESS; /* heuristic overcommit */
int sysctl_overcommit_ratio = 50; /* default is 50% */
int sysctl_max_map_count = DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT;
@@ -463,6 +463,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(brk, unsigned long, brk)
*/
void __init mmap_init(void)
{
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = percpu_counter_init(&vm_committed_as, 0);
+ VM_BUG_ON(ret);
vm_region_jar = KMEM_CACHE(vm_region, SLAB_PANIC);
}
@@ -1847,12 +1851,9 @@ int __vm_enough_memory(struct mm_struct *mm, long pages, int cap_sys_admin)
if (mm)
allowed -= mm->total_vm / 32;
- /*
- * cast `allowed' as a signed long because vm_committed_space
- * sometimes has a negative value
- */
- if (atomic_long_read(&vm_committed_space) < (long)allowed)
+ if (percpu_counter_read_positive(&vm_committed_as) < allowed)
return 0;
+
error:
vm_unacct_memory(pages);