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| author | Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> | 2017-11-15 17:35:33 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-11-15 18:21:04 -0800 |
| commit | b4e98d9ac775907cc53fb08fcb6776deb7694e30 (patch) | |
| tree | 4a82caff5eab86a66f078622acfd68df5ac92235 /Documentation | |
| parent | 7d6c4dfa4de96d11b9d6adaf5aa5ca8c54670258 (diff) | |
| download | linux-b4e98d9ac775907cc53fb08fcb6776deb7694e30.tar.bz2 | |
mm: account pud page tables
On a machine with 5-level paging support a process can allocate
significant amount of memory and stay unnoticed by oom-killer and memory
cgroup. The trick is to allocate a lot of PUD page tables. We don't
account PUD page tables, only PMD and PTE.
We already addressed the same issue for PMD page tables, see commit
dc6c9a35b66b ("mm: account pmd page tables to the process").
Introduction of 5-level paging brings the same issue for PUD page
tables.
The patch expands accounting to PUD level.
[kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com: s/pmd_t/pud_t/]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171004074305.x35eh5u7ybbt5kar@black.fi.intel.com
[heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com: s390/mm: fix pud table accounting]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171103090551.18231-1-heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171002080427.3320-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 30fd16b14196..2729e8db9492 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -629,10 +629,10 @@ oom_dump_tasks Enables a system-wide task dump (excluding kernel threads) to be produced when the kernel performs an OOM-killing and includes such information as -pid, uid, tgid, vm size, rss, nr_ptes, nr_pmds, swapents, oom_score_adj -score, and name. This is helpful to determine why the OOM killer was -invoked, to identify the rogue task that caused it, and to determine why -the OOM killer chose the task it did to kill. +pid, uid, tgid, vm size, rss, nr_ptes, nr_pmds, nr_puds, swapents, +oom_score_adj score, and name. This is helpful to determine why the OOM +killer was invoked, to identify the rogue task that caused it, and to +determine why the OOM killer chose the task it did to kill. If this is set to zero, this information is suppressed. On very large systems with thousands of tasks it may not be feasible to dump |