linux/include
KOSAKI Motohiro 00a62ce91e mm: fix Committed_AS underflow on large NR_CPUS environment
The Committed_AS field can underflow in certain situations:

>         # while true; do cat /proc/meminfo  | grep _AS; sleep 1; done | uniq -c
>               1 Committed_AS: 18446744073709323392 kB
>              11 Committed_AS: 18446744073709455488 kB
>               6 Committed_AS:    35136 kB
>               5 Committed_AS: 18446744073709454400 kB
>               7 Committed_AS:    35904 kB
>               3 Committed_AS: 18446744073709453248 kB
>               2 Committed_AS:    34752 kB
>               9 Committed_AS: 18446744073709453248 kB
>               8 Committed_AS:    34752 kB
>               3 Committed_AS: 18446744073709320960 kB
>               7 Committed_AS: 18446744073709454080 kB
>               3 Committed_AS: 18446744073709320960 kB
>               5 Committed_AS: 18446744073709454080 kB
>               6 Committed_AS: 18446744073709320960 kB

Because NR_CPUS can be greater than 1000 and meminfo_proc_show() does
not check for underflow.

But NR_CPUS proportional isn't good calculation.  In general,
possibility of lock contention is proportional to the number of online
cpus, not theorical maximum cpus (NR_CPUS).

The current kernel has generic percpu-counter stuff.  using it is right
way.  it makes code simplify and percpu_counter_read_positive() don't
make underflow issue.

Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[All kernel versions]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-02 15:36:10 -07:00
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acpi Merge branch 'drm-intel-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel 2009-04-28 17:21:20 -07:00
asm-generic atomic: fix atomic_long_cmpxchg/xchg for 64 bit architectures 2009-05-02 15:36:09 -07:00
crypto
drm drm/i915: add support for G41 chipset 2009-04-21 17:22:53 -07:00
keys
linux mm: fix Committed_AS underflow on large NR_CPUS environment 2009-05-02 15:36:10 -07:00
math-emu
media V4L/DVB (11381): ivtv/cx18: remove VIDIOC_INT_S_AUDIO_ROUTING debug support. 2009-04-06 21:44:28 -03:00
mtd make MTD headers use strict integer types 2009-03-26 18:14:17 +01:00
net Bluetooth: Add different pairing timeout for Legacy Pairing 2009-04-28 09:31:38 -07:00
pcmcia
rdma Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 2009-03-26 15:54:36 -07:00
rxrpc
scsi PM/Hibernate: Wait for SCSI devices scan to complete during resume 2009-04-13 11:37:07 -07:00
sound Merge branch 'fix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ycmiao/pxa-linux-2.6 2009-04-20 14:03:04 +01:00
trace tracing/syscalls: use a dedicated file header 2009-04-09 05:43:32 +02:00
video include/video/cyblafb.h: remove it, it's unused 2009-04-13 15:04:30 -07:00
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