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mm, hugetlb: decrement reserve count if VM_NORESERVE alloc page cache
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If a vma with VM_NORESERVE allocate a new page for page cache, we should
check whether this area is reserved or not.  If this address is already
reserved by other process(in case of chg == 0), we should decrement
reserve count, because this allocated page will go into page cache and
currently, there is no way to know that this page comes from reserved pool
or not when releasing inode.  This may introduce over-counting problem to
reserved count.  With following example code, you can easily reproduce
this situation.

Assume 2MB, nr_hugepages = 100

        size = 20 * MB;
        flag = MAP_SHARED;
        p = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, flag, fd, 0);
        if (p == MAP_FAILED) {
                fprintf(stderr, "mmap() failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
                return -1;
        }

        flag = MAP_SHARED | MAP_NORESERVE;
        q = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, flag, fd, 0);
        if (q == MAP_FAILED) {
                fprintf(stderr, "mmap() failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
        }
        q[0] = 'c';

After finish the program, run 'cat /proc/meminfo'.  You can see below
result.

HugePages_Free:      100
HugePages_Rsvd:        1

To fix this, we should check our mapping type and tracked region.  If our
mapping is VM_NORESERVE, VM_MAYSHARE and chg is 0, this imply that current
allocated page will go into page cache which is already reserved region
when mapping is created.  In this case, we should decrease reserve count.
As implementing above, this patch solve the problem.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spelling in comment]
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.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>
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Joonsoo Kim authored and Linus Torvalds committed Sep 11, 2013
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34 changes: 26 additions & 8 deletions mm/hugetlb.c
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Expand Up @@ -443,10 +443,23 @@ void reset_vma_resv_huge_pages(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
}

/* Returns true if the VMA has associated reserve pages */
static int vma_has_reserves(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
static int vma_has_reserves(struct vm_area_struct *vma, long chg)
{
if (vma->vm_flags & VM_NORESERVE)
return 0;
if (vma->vm_flags & VM_NORESERVE) {
/*
* This address is already reserved by other process(chg == 0),
* so, we should decrement reserved count. Without decrementing,
* reserve count remains after releasing inode, because this
* allocated page will go into page cache and is regarded as
* coming from reserved pool in releasing step. Currently, we
* don't have any other solution to deal with this situation
* properly, so add work-around here.
*/
if (vma->vm_flags & VM_MAYSHARE && chg == 0)
return 1;
else
return 0;
}

/* Shared mappings always use reserves */
if (vma->vm_flags & VM_MAYSHARE)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -520,7 +533,8 @@ static struct page *dequeue_huge_page_node(struct hstate *h, int nid)

static struct page *dequeue_huge_page_vma(struct hstate *h,
struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long address, int avoid_reserve)
unsigned long address, int avoid_reserve,
long chg)
{
struct page *page = NULL;
struct mempolicy *mpol;
Expand All @@ -535,7 +549,7 @@ static struct page *dequeue_huge_page_vma(struct hstate *h,
* have no page reserves. This check ensures that reservations are
* not "stolen". The child may still get SIGKILLed
*/
if (!vma_has_reserves(vma) &&
if (!vma_has_reserves(vma, chg) &&
h->free_huge_pages - h->resv_huge_pages == 0)
goto err;

Expand All @@ -553,8 +567,12 @@ static struct page *dequeue_huge_page_vma(struct hstate *h,
if (cpuset_zone_allowed_softwall(zone, htlb_alloc_mask)) {
page = dequeue_huge_page_node(h, zone_to_nid(zone));
if (page) {
if (!avoid_reserve && vma_has_reserves(vma))
h->resv_huge_pages--;
if (avoid_reserve)
break;
if (!vma_has_reserves(vma, chg))
break;

h->resv_huge_pages--;
break;
}
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1155,7 +1173,7 @@ static struct page *alloc_huge_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
return ERR_PTR(-ENOSPC);
}
spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
page = dequeue_huge_page_vma(h, vma, addr, avoid_reserve);
page = dequeue_huge_page_vma(h, vma, addr, avoid_reserve, chg);
if (!page) {
spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
page = alloc_buddy_huge_page(h, NUMA_NO_NODE);
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