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authorNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>2008-02-13 15:03:19 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-13 16:21:18 -0800
commit064d9efe947542097be669581f82d6b097e81d1a (patch)
treeddfc9f1c4d60135a7d7a1c5ebb7d0e85f683cfcb /include/linux
parent2695a14d315c014474ccadbaed40b0169b00cb5b (diff)
hugetlb: fix overcommit locking
proc_doulongvec_minmax() calls copy_to_user()/copy_from_user(), so we can't hold hugetlb_lock over the call. Use a dummy variable to store the sysctl result, like in hugetlb_sysctl_handler(), then grab the lock to update nr_overcommit_huge_pages. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Reported-by: Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/hugetlb.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
index 7ca198b379a..addca4cd4f1 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ int hugetlb_reserve_pages(struct inode *inode, long from, long to);
void hugetlb_unreserve_pages(struct inode *inode, long offset, long freed);
extern unsigned long max_huge_pages;
+extern unsigned long sysctl_overcommit_huge_pages;
extern unsigned long hugepages_treat_as_movable;
-extern unsigned long nr_overcommit_huge_pages;
extern const unsigned long hugetlb_zero, hugetlb_infinity;
extern int sysctl_hugetlb_shm_group;