mm/hugetlb: fix total hugetlbfs pages count when using memory overcommit accouting
authorWanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:04:40 +0000 (15:04 -0700)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 27 Mar 2013 02:41:23 +0000 (02:41 +0000)
commite58c0a52f9510dee5dc715cb76954baf36f5b6e7
treef4b5dcea113e35a9fa8100ee6d6dcfd7ad4fed2e
parent4c239ba63bccc9d0f2829815a31f7972e925ab7f
mm/hugetlb: fix total hugetlbfs pages count when using memory overcommit accouting

commit d00285884c0892bb1310df96bce6056e9ce9b9d9 upstream.

hugetlb_total_pages is used for overcommit calculations but the current
implementation considers only the default hugetlb page size (which is
either the first defined hugepage size or the one specified by
default_hugepagesz kernel boot parameter).

If the system is configured for more than one hugepage size, which is
possible since commit a137e1cc6d6e ("hugetlbfs: per mount huge page
sizes") then the overcommit estimation done by __vm_enough_memory()
(resp.  shown by meminfo_proc_show) is not precise - there is an
impression of more available/allowed memory.  This can lead to an
unexpected ENOMEM/EFAULT resp.  SIGSEGV when memory is accounted.

Testcase:
  boot: hugepagesz=1G hugepages=1
  the default overcommit ratio is 50
  before patch:

    egrep 'CommitLimit' /proc/meminfo
    CommitLimit:     55434168 kB

  after patch:

    egrep 'CommitLimit' /proc/meminfo
    CommitLimit:     54909880 kB

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style tweak]
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
mm/hugetlb.c