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authorAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>2008-07-24 00:27:32 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-07-24 13:47:16 -0400
commit84afd99b8398c9d73af8238aa3cd835858e3097a (patch)
tree11908ca096ef8e95e578b766d1077e7d12eb2a62 /mm/mremap.c
parentc37f9fb11c976ffc08200d631dada6dcbfd07ea4 (diff)
hugetlb reservations: fix hugetlb MAP_PRIVATE reservations across vma splits
When a hugetlb mapping with a reservation is split, a new VMA is cloned from the original. This new VMA is a direct copy of the original including the reservation count. When this pair of VMAs are unmapped we will incorrect double account the unused reservation and the overall reservation count will be incorrect, in extreme cases it will wrap. The problem occurs when we split an existing VMA say to unmap a page in the middle. split_vma() will create a new VMA copying all fields from the original. As we are storing our reservation count in vm_private_data this is also copies, endowing the new VMA with a duplicate of the original VMA's reservation. Neither of the new VMAs can exhaust these reservations as they are too small, but when we unmap and close these VMAs we will incorrect credit the remainder twice and resv_huge_pages will become out of sync. This can lead to allocation failures on mappings with reservations and even to resv_huge_pages wrapping which prevents all subsequent hugepage allocations. The simple fix would be to correctly apportion the remaining reservation count when the split is made. However the only hook we have vm_ops->open only has the new VMA we do not know the identity of the preceeding VMA. Also even if we did have that VMA to hand we do not know how much of the reservation was consumed each side of the split. This patch therefore takes a different tack. We know that the whole of any private mapping (which has a reservation) has a reservation over its whole size. Any present pages represent consumed reservation. Therefore if we track the instantiated pages we can calculate the remaining reservation. This patch reuses the existing regions code to track the regions for which we have consumed reservation (ie. the instantiated pages), as each page is faulted in we record the consumption of reservation for the new page. When we need to return unused reservations at unmap time we simply count the consumed reservation region subtracting that from the whole of the map. During a VMA split the newly opened VMA will point to the same region map, as this map is offset oriented it remains valid for both of the split VMAs. This map is referenced counted so that it is removed when all VMAs which are part of the mmap are gone. Thanks to Adam Litke and Mel Gorman for their review feedback. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Cc: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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