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authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>2009-02-10 14:02:27 +0000
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-02-10 10:48:42 -0800
commit5a6fe125950676015f5108fb71b2a67441755003 (patch)
treec985fac46de39392466c4917c497b50bdc9c0757 /include/linux/hugetlb.h
parent4c098bcd55fad34dcf224bf8343db6a9ac58fc68 (diff)
Do not account for the address space used by hugetlbfs using VM_ACCOUNT
When overcommit is disabled, the core VM accounts for pages used by anonymous shared, private mappings and special mappings. It keeps track of VMAs that should be accounted for with VM_ACCOUNT and VMAs that never had a reserve with VM_NORESERVE. Overcommit for hugetlbfs is much riskier than overcommit for base pages due to contiguity requirements. It avoids overcommiting on both shared and private mappings using reservation counters that are checked and updated during mmap(). This ensures (within limits) that hugepages exist in the future when faults occurs or it is too easy to applications to be SIGKILLed. As hugetlbfs makes its own reservations of a different unit to the base page size, VM_ACCOUNT should never be set. Even if the units were correct, we would double account for the usage in the core VM and hugetlbfs. VM_NORESERVE may be set because an application can request no reserves be made for hugetlbfs at the risk of getting killed later. With commit fc8744adc870a8d4366908221508bb113d8b72ee, VM_NORESERVE and VM_ACCOUNT are getting unconditionally set for hugetlbfs-backed mappings. This breaks the accounting for both the core VM and hugetlbfs, can trigger an OOM storm when hugepage pools are too small lockups and corrupted counters otherwise are used. This patch brings hugetlbfs more in line with how the core VM treats VM_NORESERVE but prevents VM_ACCOUNT being set. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/hugetlb.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/hugetlb.h5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
index f1d2fba19ea0..af09660001c7 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ unsigned long hugetlb_total_pages(void);
int hugetlb_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long address, int write_access);
int hugetlb_reserve_pages(struct inode *inode, long from, long to,
- struct vm_area_struct *vma);
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ int acctflags);
void hugetlb_unreserve_pages(struct inode *inode, long offset, long freed);
extern unsigned long hugepages_treat_as_movable;
@@ -138,7 +139,7 @@ static inline struct hugetlbfs_sb_info *HUGETLBFS_SB(struct super_block *sb)
extern const struct file_operations hugetlbfs_file_operations;
extern struct vm_operations_struct hugetlb_vm_ops;
-struct file *hugetlb_file_setup(const char *name, size_t);
+struct file *hugetlb_file_setup(const char *name, size_t, int);
int hugetlb_get_quota(struct address_space *mapping, long delta);
void hugetlb_put_quota(struct address_space *mapping, long delta);