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| author | KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> | 2009-04-30 15:08:51 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-05-02 15:36:10 -0700 |
| commit | 00a62ce91e554198ef28234c91c36f850f5a3bc9 (patch) | |
| tree | 367ef134219deef91903c3fa0eb108c13658f2c7 /mm/nommu.c | |
| parent | 0763ed2355198cdef2f6a2098e9d52eb1fe4365d (diff) | |
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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.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c index 72eda4aee2cb..809998aa7b50 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); |