From 00a62ce91e554198ef28234c91c36f850f5a3bc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KOSAKI Motohiro Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:08:51 -0700 Subject: mm: fix Committed_AS underflow on large NR_CPUS environment The Committed_AS field can underflow in certain situations: > # while true; do cat /proc/meminfo | grep _AS; sleep 1; done | uniq -c > 1 Committed_AS: 18446744073709323392 kB > 11 Committed_AS: 18446744073709455488 kB > 6 Committed_AS: 35136 kB > 5 Committed_AS: 18446744073709454400 kB > 7 Committed_AS: 35904 kB > 3 Committed_AS: 18446744073709453248 kB > 2 Committed_AS: 34752 kB > 9 Committed_AS: 18446744073709453248 kB > 8 Committed_AS: 34752 kB > 3 Committed_AS: 18446744073709320960 kB > 7 Committed_AS: 18446744073709454080 kB > 3 Committed_AS: 18446744073709320960 kB > 5 Committed_AS: 18446744073709454080 kB > 6 Committed_AS: 18446744073709320960 kB Because NR_CPUS can be greater than 1000 and meminfo_proc_show() does not check for underflow. But NR_CPUS proportional isn't good calculation. In general, possibility of lock contention is proportional to the number of online cpus, not theorical maximum cpus (NR_CPUS). The current kernel has generic percpu-counter stuff. using it is right way. it makes code simplify and percpu_counter_read_positive() don't make underflow issue. Reported-by: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Eric B Munson Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: [All kernel versions] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/proc/meminfo.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs') diff --git a/fs/proc/meminfo.c b/fs/proc/meminfo.c index 74ea974f5ca..c6b0302af4c 100644 --- a/fs/proc/meminfo.c +++ b/fs/proc/meminfo.c @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ static int meminfo_proc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v) #define K(x) ((x) << (PAGE_SHIFT - 10)) si_meminfo(&i); si_swapinfo(&i); - committed = atomic_long_read(&vm_committed_space); + committed = percpu_counter_read_positive(&vm_committed_as); allowed = ((totalram_pages - hugetlb_total_pages()) * sysctl_overcommit_ratio / 100) + total_swap_pages; -- cgit v1.2.3