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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>2015-08-06 15:46:20 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-08-07 04:39:40 +0300
commit4248b0da460839e30eaaad78992b9a1dd3e63e21 (patch)
tree795b2e5253b15d6a75a4a0dc0d8fe13b50a6060e /fs/dcache.c
parentd3cd131d935ab3bab700491edbbd7cad4040ce50 (diff)
downloadlinux-4248b0da460839e30eaaad78992b9a1dd3e63e21.tar.bz2
fs, file table: reinit files_stat.max_files after deferred memory initialisation
Dave Hansen reported the following; My laptop has been behaving strangely with 4.2-rc2. Once I log in to my X session, I start getting all kinds of strange errors from applications and see this in my dmesg: VFS: file-max limit 8192 reached The problem is that the file-max is calculated before memory is fully initialised and miscalculates how much memory the kernel is using. This patch recalculates file-max after deferred memory initialisation. Note that using memory hotplug infrastructure would not have avoided this problem as the value is not recalculated after memory hot-add. 4.1: files_stat.max_files = 6582781 4.2-rc2: files_stat.max_files = 8192 4.2-rc2 patched: files_stat.max_files = 6562467 Small differences with the patch applied and 4.1 but not enough to matter. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Alex Ng <alexng@microsoft.com> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/dcache.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/dcache.c13
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 5c8ea15e73a5..9b5fe503f6cb 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -3442,22 +3442,15 @@ void __init vfs_caches_init_early(void)
inode_init_early();
}
-void __init vfs_caches_init(unsigned long mempages)
+void __init vfs_caches_init(void)
{
- unsigned long reserve;
-
- /* Base hash sizes on available memory, with a reserve equal to
- 150% of current kernel size */
-
- reserve = min((mempages - nr_free_pages()) * 3/2, mempages - 1);
- mempages -= reserve;
-
names_cachep = kmem_cache_create("names_cache", PATH_MAX, 0,
SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC, NULL);
dcache_init();
inode_init();
- files_init(mempages);
+ files_init();
+ files_maxfiles_init();
mnt_init();
bdev_cache_init();
chrdev_init();