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[PATCH] overcommit: add calculate_totalreserve_pages()

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These patches are an enhancement of OVERCOMMIT_GUESS algorithm in
__vm_enough_memory().

- why the kernel needed patching

  When the kernel can't allocate anonymous pages in practice, currnet
  OVERCOMMIT_GUESS could return success. This implementation might be
  the cause of oom kill in memory pressure situation.

  If the Linux runs with page reservation features like
  /proc/sys/vm/lowmem_reserve_ratio and without swap region, I think
  the oom kill occurs easily.

- the overall design approach in the patch

  When the OVERCOMMET_GUESS algorithm calculates number of free pages,
  the reserved free pages are regarded as non-free pages.

  This change helps to avoid the pitfall that the number of free pages
  become less than the number which the kernel tries to keep free.

- testing results

  I tested the patches using my test kernel module.

  If the patches aren't applied to the kernel, __vm_enough_memory()
  returns success in the situation but autual page allocation is
  failed.

  On the other hand, if the patches are applied to the kernel, memory
  allocation failure is avoided since __vm_enough_memory() returns
  failure in the situation.

  I checked that on i386 SMP 16GB memory machine. I haven't tested on
  nommu environment currently.

This patch adds totalreserve_pages for __vm_enough_memory().

Calculate_totalreserve_pages() checks maximum lowmem_reserve pages and
pages_high in each zone. Finally, the function stores the sum of each
zone to totalreserve_pages.

The totalreserve_pages is calculated when the VM is initilized.
And the variable is updated when /proc/sys/vm/lowmem_reserve_raito
or /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes are changed.

Signed-off-by: Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Hideo AOKI 2006-04-10 22:52:59 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent e23ca00bf1
commit cb45b0e966
2 changed files with 40 additions and 0 deletions
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include/linux/swap.h
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@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ extern void swapin_readahead(swp_entry_t, unsigned long, struct vm_area_struct *
/* linux/mm/page_alloc.c */
extern unsigned long totalram_pages;
extern unsigned long totalhigh_pages;
extern unsigned long totalreserve_pages;
extern long nr_swap_pages;
extern unsigned int nr_free_pages(void);
extern unsigned int nr_free_pages_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat);

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mm/page_alloc.c
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@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ nodemask_t node_possible_map __read_mostly = NODE_MASK_ALL;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(node_possible_map);
unsigned long totalram_pages __read_mostly;
unsigned long totalhigh_pages __read_mostly;
unsigned long totalreserve_pages __read_mostly;
long nr_swap_pages;
int percpu_pagelist_fraction;
@ -2476,6 +2477,38 @@ void __init page_alloc_init(void)
hotcpu_notifier(page_alloc_cpu_notify, 0);
}
/*
* calculate_totalreserve_pages - called when sysctl_lower_zone_reserve_ratio
* or min_free_kbytes changes.
*/
static void calculate_totalreserve_pages(void)
{
struct pglist_data *pgdat;
unsigned long reserve_pages = 0;
int i, j;
for_each_online_pgdat(pgdat) {
for (i = 0; i < MAX_NR_ZONES; i++) {
struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
unsigned long max = 0;
/* Find valid and maximum lowmem_reserve in the zone */
for (j = i; j < MAX_NR_ZONES; j++) {
if (zone->lowmem_reserve[j] > max)
max = zone->lowmem_reserve[j];
}
/* we treat pages_high as reserved pages. */
max += zone->pages_high;
if (max > zone->present_pages)
max = zone->present_pages;
reserve_pages += max;
}
}
totalreserve_pages = reserve_pages;
}
/*
* setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserve - called whenever
* sysctl_lower_zone_reserve_ratio changes. Ensures that each zone
@ -2507,6 +2540,9 @@ static void setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserve(void)
}
}
}
/* update totalreserve_pages */
calculate_totalreserve_pages();
}
/*
@ -2561,6 +2597,9 @@ void setup_per_zone_pages_min(void)
zone->pages_high = zone->pages_min + tmp / 2;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lru_lock, flags);
}
/* update totalreserve_pages */
calculate_totalreserve_pages();
}
/*