proc: allocate storage for numa_maps statistics once
authorStephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca>
Wed, 25 May 2011 00:12:49 +0000 (17:12 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 25 May 2011 15:39:35 +0000 (08:39 -0700)
commit5b52fc890bece77bffb9fade69239f71384ef02b
tree52848297984dba4c0f4106c5303a1a4bf0db92b0
parentf2beb7983613ecca20a61604f01ab50cc7a797e6
proc: allocate storage for numa_maps statistics once

In show_numa_map() we collect statistics into a numa_maps structure.
Since the number of NUMA nodes can be very large, this structure is not a
candidate for stack allocation.

Instead of going thru a kmalloc()+kfree() cycle each time show_numa_map()
is invoked, perform the allocation just once when /proc/pid/numa_maps is
opened.

Performing the allocation when numa_maps is opened, and thus before a
reference to the target tasks mm is taken, eliminates a potential
stalemate condition in the oom-killer as originally described by Hugh
Dickins:

  ... imagine what happens if the system is out of memory, and the mm
  we're looking at is selected for killing by the OOM killer: while
  we wait in __get_free_page for more memory, no memory is freed
  from the selected mm because it cannot reach exit_mmap while we hold
  that reference.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/proc/task_mmu.c