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| author | David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> | 2017-02-24 14:58:47 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-02-24 17:46:55 -0800 |
| commit | def5efe0376501ef7bd6b53ed061512c142e59aa (patch) | |
| tree | 46c957c37989924f2a970f09e15fc90d757999bf /mm/mmap.c | |
| parent | 712c604dcdf8186295e2af694adf52c6842ad100 (diff) | |
| download | linux-def5efe0376501ef7bd6b53ed061512c142e59aa.tar.gz | |
mm, madvise: fail with ENOMEM when splitting vma will hit max_map_count
If madvise(2) advice will result in the underlying vma being split and the number of areas mapped by the process will exceed /proc/sys/vm/max_map_count as a result, return ENOMEM instead of EAGAIN. EAGAIN is returned by madvise(2) when a kernel resource, such as slab, is temporarily unavailable. It indicates that userspace should retry the advice in the near future. This is important for advice such as MADV_DONTNEED which is often used by malloc implementations to free memory back to the system: we really do want to free memory back when madvise(2) returns EAGAIN because slab allocations (for vmas, anon_vmas, or mempolicies) cannot be allocated. Encountering /proc/sys/vm/max_map_count is not a temporary failure, however, so return ENOMEM to indicate this is a more serious issue. A followup patch to the man page will specify this behavior. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1701241431120.42507@chino.kir.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mmap.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/mmap.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index 1cec28d20583..499b988b1639 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -2499,11 +2499,11 @@ detach_vmas_to_be_unmapped(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, } /* - * __split_vma() bypasses sysctl_max_map_count checking. We use this on the - * munmap path where it doesn't make sense to fail. + * __split_vma() bypasses sysctl_max_map_count checking. We use this where it + * has already been checked or doesn't make sense to fail. */ -static int __split_vma(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, - unsigned long addr, int new_below) +int __split_vma(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, + unsigned long addr, int new_below) { struct vm_area_struct *new; int err; |