The patch titled
hugetlb: fix overcommit locking
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
hugetlb-fix-overcommit-locking.patch
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Subject: hugetlb: fix overcommit locking
From: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@xxxxxxxxxx>
proc_doulongvec_minmax() calls copy_to_user()/copy_from_user(), so we can't
hold hugetlb_lock over the call. Use a dummy variable to store the sysctl
result, like in hugetlb_sysctl_handler(), then grab the lock to update
nr_overcommit_huge_pages.
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Miles Lane <miles.lane@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Gibson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/hugetlb.h | 2 +-
kernel/sysctl.c | 4 ++--
mm/hugetlb.c | 6 ++++--
3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff -puN include/linux/hugetlb.h~hugetlb-fix-overcommit-locking include/linux/hugetlb.h
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h~hugetlb-fix-overcommit-locking
+++ a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ int hugetlb_reserve_pages(struct inode *
void hugetlb_unreserve_pages(struct inode *inode, long offset, long freed);
extern unsigned long max_huge_pages;
+extern unsigned long sysctl_overcommit_huge_pages;
extern unsigned long hugepages_treat_as_movable;
-extern unsigned long nr_overcommit_huge_pages;
extern const unsigned long hugetlb_zero, hugetlb_infinity;
extern int sysctl_hugetlb_shm_group;
diff -puN kernel/sysctl.c~hugetlb-fix-overcommit-locking kernel/sysctl.c
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c~hugetlb-fix-overcommit-locking
+++ a/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -978,8 +978,8 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
{
.ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
.procname = "nr_overcommit_hugepages",
- .data = &nr_overcommit_huge_pages,
- .maxlen = sizeof(nr_overcommit_huge_pages),
+ .data = &sysctl_overcommit_huge_pages,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_overcommit_huge_pages),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = &hugetlb_overcommit_handler,
},
diff -puN mm/hugetlb.c~hugetlb-fix-overcommit-locking mm/hugetlb.c
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c~hugetlb-fix-overcommit-locking
+++ a/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -24,14 +24,15 @@
const unsigned long hugetlb_zero = 0, hugetlb_infinity = ~0UL;
static unsigned long nr_huge_pages, free_huge_pages, resv_huge_pages;
static unsigned long surplus_huge_pages;
+static unsigned long nr_overcommit_huge_pages;
unsigned long max_huge_pages;
+unsigned long sysctl_overcommit_huge_pages;
static struct list_head hugepage_freelists[MAX_NUMNODES];
static unsigned int nr_huge_pages_node[MAX_NUMNODES];
static unsigned int free_huge_pages_node[MAX_NUMNODES];
static unsigned int surplus_huge_pages_node[MAX_NUMNODES];
static gfp_t htlb_alloc_mask = GFP_HIGHUSER;
unsigned long hugepages_treat_as_movable;
-unsigned long nr_overcommit_huge_pages;
static int hugetlb_next_nid;
/*
@@ -609,8 +610,9 @@ int hugetlb_overcommit_handler(struct ct
struct file *file, void __user *buffer,
size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
{
- spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, file, buffer, length, ppos);
+ spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
+ nr_overcommit_huge_pages = sysctl_overcommit_huge_pages;
spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
return 0;
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from nacc@xxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
hugetlb-fix-overcommit-locking.patch
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