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| author | KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> | 2009-04-30 15:08:51 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-05-02 15:36:10 -0700 |
| commit | 00a62ce91e554198ef28234c91c36f850f5a3bc9 (patch) | |
| tree | 367ef134219deef91903c3fa0eb108c13658f2c7 /include/linux | |
| parent | 0763ed2355198cdef2f6a2098e9d52eb1fe4365d (diff) | |
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mman.h | 9 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mman.h b/include/linux/mman.h index 30d1073bac3b..9872d6ca58ae 100644 --- a/include/linux/mman.h +++ b/include/linux/mman.h @@ -12,21 +12,18 @@ #ifdef __KERNEL__ #include <linux/mm.h> +#include <linux/percpu_counter.h> #include <asm/atomic.h> extern int sysctl_overcommit_memory; extern int sysctl_overcommit_ratio; -extern atomic_long_t vm_committed_space; +extern struct percpu_counter vm_committed_as; -#ifdef CONFIG_SMP -extern void vm_acct_memory(long pages); -#else static inline void vm_acct_memory(long pages) { - atomic_long_add(pages, &vm_committed_space); + percpu_counter_add(&vm_committed_as, pages); } -#endif static inline void vm_unacct_memory(long pages) { |
