mm, hugetlb: decrement reserve count if VM_NORESERVE alloc page cache
If a vma with VM_NORESERVE allocate a new page for page cache, we should check whether this area is reserved or not. If this address is already reserved by other process(in case of chg == 0), we should decrement reserve count, because this allocated page will go into page cache and currently, there is no way to know that this page comes from reserved pool or not when releasing inode. This may introduce over-counting problem to reserved count. With following example code, you can easily reproduce this situation. Assume 2MB, nr_hugepages = 100 size = 20 * MB; flag = MAP_SHARED; p = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, flag, fd, 0); if (p == MAP_FAILED) { fprintf(stderr, "mmap() failed: %s\n", strerror(errno)); return -1; } flag = MAP_SHARED | MAP_NORESERVE; q = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, flag, fd, 0); if (q == MAP_FAILED) { fprintf(stderr, "mmap() failed: %s\n", strerror(errno)); } q[0] = 'c'; After finish the program, run 'cat /proc/meminfo'. You can see below result. HugePages_Free: 100 HugePages_Rsvd: 1 To fix this, we should check our mapping type and tracked region. If our mapping is VM_NORESERVE, VM_MAYSHARE and chg is 0, this imply that current allocated page will go into page cache which is already reserved region when mapping is created. In this case, we should decrease reserve count. As implementing above, this patch solve the problem. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spelling in comment] Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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