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authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>2017-11-15 17:35:33 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-11-15 18:21:04 -0800
commitb4e98d9ac775907cc53fb08fcb6776deb7694e30 (patch)
tree4a82caff5eab86a66f078622acfd68df5ac92235 /arch/powerpc
parent7d6c4dfa4de96d11b9d6adaf5aa5ca8c54670258 (diff)
downloadlinux-b4e98d9ac775907cc53fb08fcb6776deb7694e30.tar.gz
mm: account pud page tables
On a machine with 5-level paging support a process can allocate
significant amount of memory and stay unnoticed by oom-killer and memory
cgroup.  The trick is to allocate a lot of PUD page tables.  We don't
account PUD page tables, only PMD and PTE.

We already addressed the same issue for PMD page tables, see commit
dc6c9a35b66b ("mm: account pmd page tables to the process").
Introduction of 5-level paging brings the same issue for PUD page
tables.

The patch expands accounting to PUD level.

[kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com: s/pmd_t/pud_t/]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171004074305.x35eh5u7ybbt5kar@black.fi.intel.com
[heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com: s390/mm: fix pud table accounting]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171103090551.18231-1-heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171002080427.3320-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
index 1571a498a33f..a9b9083c5e49 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -433,6 +433,7 @@ static void hugetlb_free_pud_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb, pgd_t *pgd,
 	pud = pud_offset(pgd, start);
 	pgd_clear(pgd);
 	pud_free_tlb(tlb, pud, start);
+	mm_dec_nr_puds(tlb->mm);
 }
 
 /*