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authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>2015-02-11 15:26:50 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-02-11 17:06:04 -0800
commitdc6c9a35b66b520cf67e05d8ca60ebecad3b0479 (patch)
tree41075776145d02727c15c27d522b4c93529cca77 /mm/memory.c
parent8aa76875dc15b2dd21fa74eb7c12dc3c75f4b6b6 (diff)
downloadlinux-dc6c9a35b66b520cf67e05d8ca60ebecad3b0479.tar.bz2
mm: account pmd page tables to the process
Dave noticed that unprivileged process can allocate significant amount of memory -- >500 MiB on x86_64 -- and stay unnoticed by oom-killer and memory cgroup. The trick is to allocate a lot of PMD page tables. Linux kernel doesn't account PMD tables to the process, only PTE. The use-cases below use few tricks to allocate a lot of PMD page tables while keeping VmRSS and VmPTE low. oom_score for the process will be 0. #include <errno.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #include <sys/prctl.h> #define PUD_SIZE (1UL << 30) #define PMD_SIZE (1UL << 21) #define NR_PUD 130000 int main(void) { char *addr = NULL; unsigned long i; prctl(PR_SET_THP_DISABLE); for (i = 0; i < NR_PUD ; i++) { addr = mmap(addr + PUD_SIZE, PUD_SIZE, PROT_WRITE|PROT_READ, MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0); if (addr == MAP_FAILED) { perror("mmap"); break; } *addr = 'x'; munmap(addr, PMD_SIZE); mmap(addr, PMD_SIZE, PROT_WRITE|PROT_READ, MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, -1, 0); if (addr == MAP_FAILED) perror("re-mmap"), exit(1); } printf("PID %d consumed %lu KiB in PMD page tables\n", getpid(), i * 4096 >> 10); return pause(); } The patch addresses the issue by account PMD tables to the process the same way we account PTE. The main place where PMD tables is accounted is __pmd_alloc() and free_pmd_range(). But there're few corner cases: - HugeTLB can share PMD page tables. The patch handles by accounting the table to all processes who share it. - x86 PAE pre-allocates few PMD tables on fork. - Architectures with FIRST_USER_ADDRESS > 0. We need to adjust sanity check on exit(2). Accounting only happens on configuration where PMD page table's level is present (PMD is not folded). As with nr_ptes we use per-mm counter. The counter value is used to calculate baseline for badness score by oom-killer. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c15
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index d63849b5188f..bbe6a73a899d 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -428,6 +428,7 @@ static inline void free_pmd_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb, pud_t *pud,
pmd = pmd_offset(pud, start);
pud_clear(pud);
pmd_free_tlb(tlb, pmd, start);
+ mm_dec_nr_pmds(tlb->mm);
}
static inline void free_pud_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb, pgd_t *pgd,
@@ -3322,15 +3323,17 @@ int __pmd_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, pud_t *pud, unsigned long address)
spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
#ifndef __ARCH_HAS_4LEVEL_HACK
- if (pud_present(*pud)) /* Another has populated it */
- pmd_free(mm, new);
- else
+ if (!pud_present(*pud)) {
+ mm_inc_nr_pmds(mm);
pud_populate(mm, pud, new);
-#else
- if (pgd_present(*pud)) /* Another has populated it */
+ } else /* Another has populated it */
pmd_free(mm, new);
- else
+#else
+ if (!pgd_present(*pud)) {
+ mm_inc_nr_pmds(mm);
pgd_populate(mm, pud, new);
+ } else /* Another has populated it */
+ pmd_free(mm, new);
#endif /* __ARCH_HAS_4LEVEL_HACK */
spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
return 0;