linux-kernel - [PATCH v3] mm/hugetlb: fix total hugetlbfs pages count when memory overcommit accouting

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Date:	Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:30:46 +0800
From:	Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Hillf Danton <dhillf@...il.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3] mm/hugetlb: fix total hugetlbfs pages count when memory overcommit accouting

Changelog:
 v2 -> v3:
  * update patch description, spotted by Michal
 v1 -> v2:
  * update patch description, spotted by Michal

"hugetlb_total_pages is used for overcommit calculations but the
current implementation considers only 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 a137e1cc 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."

The patch should also push to 2.6.27 stable tree.

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

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 mm/hugetlb.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index cdb64e4..9e25040 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -2124,8 +2124,11 @@ int hugetlb_report_node_meminfo(int nid, char *buf)
 /* Return the number pages of memory we physically have, in PAGE_SIZE units. */
 unsigned long hugetlb_total_pages(void)
 {
-	struct hstate *h = &default_hstate;
-	return h->nr_huge_pages * pages_per_huge_page(h);
+	struct hstate *h;
+	unsigned long nr_total_pages = 0;
+	for_each_hstate(h)
+		nr_total_pages += h->nr_huge_pages * pages_per_huge_page(h);
+	return nr_total_pages;
 }
 
 static int hugetlb_acct_memory(struct hstate *h, long delta)
-- 
1.7.11.7

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