linux/mm
Mel Gorman 5a6fe12595 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 fc8744adc8, 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>
2009-02-10 10:48:42 -08:00
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allocpercpu.c mm/allocpercpu.c: make 4 functions static 2008-07-26 12:00:12 -07:00
backing-dev.c Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-01-06 17:10:04 -08:00
bootmem.c bootmem: print request details before BUG_ON(them) 2009-01-06 15:59:10 -08:00
bounce.c bounce: don't rely on a zeroed bio_vec list 2008-12-29 08:29:52 +01:00
dmapool.c dmapool: enable debugging for CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON too 2008-04-28 08:58:20 -07:00
fadvise.c [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrapper special cases 2009-01-14 14:15:18 +01:00
failslab.c SLUB: failslab support 2008-12-29 11:27:46 +02:00
filemap_xip.c badpage: remove vma from page_remove_rmap 2009-01-06 15:59:07 -08:00
filemap.c [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrapper special cases 2009-01-14 14:15:18 +01:00
fremap.c Do not account for the address space used by hugetlbfs using VM_ACCOUNT 2009-02-10 10:48:42 -08:00
highmem.c x86, pat: avoid highmem cache attribute aliasing 2008-08-15 17:22:57 +02:00
hugetlb.c Do not account for the address space used by hugetlbfs using VM_ACCOUNT 2009-02-10 10:48:42 -08:00
internal.h mm: make get_user_pages() interruptible 2009-01-06 15:59:08 -08:00
Kconfig Remove obsolete CONFIG_RESOURCES_64BIT 2009-01-06 15:59:14 -08:00
maccess.c kgdb: fix optional arch functions and probe_kernel_* 2008-04-17 20:05:39 +02:00
madvise.c [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 14 2009-01-14 14:15:24 +01:00
Makefile shmem: unify regular and tiny shmem 2009-01-06 15:59:08 -08:00
memcontrol.c memcg: NULL pointer dereference at rmdir on some NUMA systems 2009-01-29 18:04:44 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c mm: remove GFP_HIGHUSER_PAGECACHE 2009-01-06 15:59:01 -08:00
memory.c do_wp_page: fix regression with execute in place 2009-02-05 12:56:48 -08:00
mempolicy.c [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 28 2009-01-14 14:15:30 +01:00
mempool.c spelling fixes: mm/ 2007-10-20 01:27:18 +02:00
migrate.c [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 28 2009-01-14 14:15:30 +01:00
mincore.c [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 14 2009-01-14 14:15:24 +01:00
mlock.c mm: fix error case in mlock downgrade reversion 2009-02-08 13:53:28 -08:00
mm_init.c mm: mminit_loglevel cannot be __meminitdata anymore 2008-08-20 15:40:30 -07:00
mmap.c Do not account for the address space used by hugetlbfs using VM_ACCOUNT 2009-02-10 10:48:42 -08:00
mmu_notifier.c mmu-notifiers: core 2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
mmzone.c mm: mark the correct zone as full when scanning zonelists 2008-09-13 14:41:52 -07:00
mprotect.c Do not account for the address space used by hugetlbfs using VM_ACCOUNT 2009-02-10 10:48:42 -08:00
mremap.c [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 13 2009-01-14 14:15:23 +01:00
msync.c [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 13 2009-01-14 14:15:23 +01:00
nommu.c uclinux: add process name to allocation error message 2009-01-27 16:42:03 +10:00
oom_kill.c memcg: avoid deadlock caused by race between oom and cpuset_attach 2009-01-08 08:31:09 -08:00
page_alloc.c mm: introduce zone_reclaim struct 2009-01-08 08:31:07 -08:00
page_cgroup.c memcg: add mem_cgroup_disabled() 2009-01-08 08:31:05 -08:00
page_io.c mm: try_to_free_swap replaces remove_exclusive_swap_page 2009-01-06 15:59:03 -08:00
page_isolation.c memory hotplug: fix page_zone() calculation in test_pages_isolated() 2008-11-06 15:41:19 -08:00
page-writeback.c write-back: fix nr_to_write counter 2009-02-03 16:59:08 -08:00
pagewalk.c pagemap: pass mm into pagewalkers 2008-06-12 18:05:41 -07:00
pdflush.c cpumask: convert mm/ 2009-01-01 10:12:29 +10:30
prio_tree.c spelling fixes: mm/ 2007-10-20 01:27:18 +02:00
quicklist.c mm: size of quicklists shouldn't be proportional to the number of CPUs 2008-09-02 19:21:38 -07:00
readahead.c vmscan: split LRU lists into anon & file sets 2008-10-20 08:50:25 -07:00
rmap.c badpage: remove vma from page_remove_rmap 2009-01-06 15:59:07 -08:00
shmem_acl.c [PATCH] sanitize ->permission() prototype 2008-07-26 20:53:14 -04:00
shmem.c Stop playing silly games with the VM_ACCOUNT flag 2009-01-31 15:08:56 -08:00
slab.c cpumask: convert mm/ 2009-01-01 10:12:29 +10:30
slob.c slob: do not pass the SLAB flags as GFP in kmem_cache_create() 2008-12-15 16:27:06 -08:00
slub.c slub: fix per cpu kmem_cache_cpu array memory leak 2009-01-28 10:43:42 +02:00
sparse-vmemmap.c vmemmap: warn about page_structs with remote distance 2008-11-06 15:41:19 -08:00
sparse.c meminit section warnings 2008-11-30 10:03:35 -08:00
swap_state.c memcg: mem+swap controller core 2009-01-08 08:31:05 -08:00
swap.c memcg: add zone_reclaim_stat 2009-01-08 08:31:08 -08:00
swapfile.c memcg: fix refcnt handling at swapoff 2009-01-29 18:04:43 -08:00
thrash.c Bug in mm/thrash.c function grab_swap_token() 2007-05-11 08:29:32 -07:00
truncate.c mmap: handle mlocked pages during map, remap, unmap 2008-10-20 08:52:31 -07:00
util.c mm: Make generic weak get_user_pages_fast and EXPORT_GPL it 2008-08-12 17:52:53 +10:00
vmalloc.c revert "mm: vmalloc use mutex for purge" 2009-01-15 16:39:40 -08:00
vmscan.c memcg: fix calculation of active_ratio 2009-01-08 08:31:09 -08:00
vmstat.c cpumask: convert mm/ 2009-01-01 10:12:29 +10:30