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>
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index 72eda4a..809998a 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
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 @@
*/
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 @@
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);
