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authorHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>2015-12-29 14:54:32 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-12-29 17:45:49 -0800
commit6cdb18ad98a49f7e9b95d538a0614cde827404b8 (patch)
treefb698abbb79de2d8b90d1042517bd08ba375c988 /mm/vmstat.c
parentcc28d6d80f6ab494b10f0e2ec949eacd610f66e3 (diff)
downloadlinux-6cdb18ad98a49f7e9b95d538a0614cde827404b8.tar.bz2
mm/vmstat: fix overflow in mod_zone_page_state()
mod_zone_page_state() takes a "delta" integer argument. delta contains the number of pages that should be added or subtracted from a struct zone's vm_stat field. If a zone is larger than 8TB this will cause overflows. E.g. for a zone with a size slightly larger than 8TB the line mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ALLOC_BATCH, zone->managed_pages); in mm/page_alloc.c:free_area_init_core() will result in a negative result for the NR_ALLOC_BATCH entry within the zone's vm_stat, since 8TB contain 0x8xxxxxxx pages which will be sign extended to a negative value. Fix this by changing the delta argument to long type. This could fix an early boot problem seen on s390, where we have a 9TB system with only one node. ZONE_DMA contains 2GB and ZONE_NORMAL the rest. The system is trying to allocate a GFP_DMA page but ZONE_DMA is completely empty, so it tries to reclaim pages in an endless loop. This was seen on a heavily patched 3.10 kernel. One possible explaination seem to be the overflows caused by mod_zone_page_state(). Unfortunately I did not have the chance to verify that this patch actually fixes the problem, since I don't have access to the system right now. However the overflow problem does exist anyway. Given the description that a system with slightly less than 8TB does work, this seems to be a candidate for the observed problem. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmstat.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmstat.c10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index 0d5712b0206c..4ebc17d948cb 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ void set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pg_data_t *pgdat,
* particular counter cannot be updated from interrupt context.
*/
void __mod_zone_page_state(struct zone *zone, enum zone_stat_item item,
- int delta)
+ long delta)
{
struct per_cpu_pageset __percpu *pcp = zone->pageset;
s8 __percpu *p = pcp->vm_stat_diff + item;
@@ -318,8 +318,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__dec_zone_page_state);
* 1 Overstepping half of threshold
* -1 Overstepping minus half of threshold
*/
-static inline void mod_state(struct zone *zone,
- enum zone_stat_item item, int delta, int overstep_mode)
+static inline void mod_state(struct zone *zone, enum zone_stat_item item,
+ long delta, int overstep_mode)
{
struct per_cpu_pageset __percpu *pcp = zone->pageset;
s8 __percpu *p = pcp->vm_stat_diff + item;
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ static inline void mod_state(struct zone *zone,
}
void mod_zone_page_state(struct zone *zone, enum zone_stat_item item,
- int delta)
+ long delta)
{
mod_state(zone, item, delta, 0);
}
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dec_zone_page_state);
* Use interrupt disable to serialize counter updates
*/
void mod_zone_page_state(struct zone *zone, enum zone_stat_item item,
- int delta)
+ long delta)
{
unsigned long flags;