mm: add overcommit_kbytes sysctl variable

Some applications that run on HPC clusters are designed around the
availability of RAM and the overcommit ratio is fine tuned to get the
maximum usage of memory without swapping.  With growing memory, the
1%-of-all-RAM grain provided by overcommit_ratio has become too coarse
for these workload (on a 2TB machine it represents no less than 20GB).

This patch adds the new overcommit_kbytes sysctl variable that allow a
much finer grain.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix nommu build]
Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 34 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 808f375648e7..a24aa22f2473 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -404,13 +404,45 @@ struct address_space *page_mapping(struct page *page)
         return mapping;
 }
 
+int overcommit_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+                             void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
+                             loff_t *ppos)
+{
+        int ret;
+
+        ret = proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
+        if (ret == 0 && write)
+                sysctl_overcommit_kbytes = 0;
+        return ret;
+}
+
+int overcommit_kbytes_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+                             void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
+                             loff_t *ppos)
+{
+        int ret;
+
+        ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
+        if (ret == 0 && write)
+                sysctl_overcommit_ratio = 0;
+        return ret;
+}
+
 /*
  * Committed memory limit enforced when OVERCOMMIT_NEVER policy is used
  */
 unsigned long vm_commit_limit(void)
 {
-        return ((totalram_pages - hugetlb_total_pages())
-                * sysctl_overcommit_ratio / 100) + total_swap_pages;
+        unsigned long allowed;
+
+        if (sysctl_overcommit_kbytes)
+                allowed = sysctl_overcommit_kbytes >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10);
+        else
+                allowed = ((totalram_pages - hugetlb_total_pages())
+                           * sysctl_overcommit_ratio / 100);
+        allowed += total_swap_pages;
+
+        return allowed;
 }