From 00a62ce91e554198ef28234c91c36f850f5a3bc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KOSAKI Motohiro Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:08:51 -0700 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Eric B Munson Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: [All kernel versions] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/mman.h | 9 +++------ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux') 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 +#include #include 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) { -- cgit v1.2.3