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Eric Paris 0bd0f9fb19 [PATCH] hugetlb: fix race in set_max_huge_pages for multiple updaters of nr_huge_pages
If there are multiple updaters to /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages simultaneously
it is possible for the nr_huge_pages variable to become incorrect.  There
is no locking in the set_max_huge_pages function around
alloc_fresh_huge_page which is able to update nr_huge_pages.  Two callers
to alloc_fresh_huge_page could race against each other as could a call to
alloc_fresh_huge_page and a call to update_and_free_page.  This patch just
expands the area covered by the hugetlb_lock to cover the call into
alloc_fresh_huge_page.  I'm not sure how we could say that a sysctl section
is performance critical where more specific locking would be needed.

My reproducer was to run a couple copies of the following script
simultaneously

while [ true ]; do
	echo 1000 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
	echo 500 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
	echo 750 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
	echo 100 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
	echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
done

and then watch /proc/meminfo and eventually you will see things like

HugePages_Total:     100
HugePages_Free:      109

After applying the patch all seemed well.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-22 09:13:43 -08:00
..
bootmem.c [PATCH] core remove PageReserved 2005-10-29 21:40:39 -07:00
fadvise.c [PATCH] xip: madvice/fadvice: execute in place 2005-06-24 00:06:42 -07:00
filemap_xip.c [PATCH] mm: rmap with inner ptlock 2005-10-29 21:40:41 -07:00
filemap.c [PATCH] x86_64: Remove obsolete ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC_UNSIGNED and page_flags_t 2005-11-14 19:55:14 -08:00
filemap.h [PATCH] xip: reduce code duplication 2005-06-24 00:06:41 -07:00
fremap.c [PATCH] unpaged: VM_NONLINEAR VM_RESERVED 2005-11-22 09:13:42 -08:00
highmem.c [PATCH] gfp_t: the rest 2005-10-28 08:16:51 -07:00
hugetlb.c [PATCH] hugetlb: fix race in set_max_huge_pages for multiple updaters of nr_huge_pages 2005-11-22 09:13:43 -08:00
internal.h Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
Kconfig [PATCH] Suppress split ptlock on arches which may use one page for multiple page tables 2005-11-07 07:53:23 -08:00
madvise.c [PATCH] unpaged: VM_UNPAGED 2005-11-22 09:13:42 -08:00
Makefile [PATCH] memory hotplug: sysfs and add/remove functions 2005-10-29 21:40:44 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c [PATCH] memory hotplug: call setup_per_zone_pages_min after hotplug 2005-10-29 21:40:44 -07:00
memory.c [PATCH] unpaged: ZERO_PAGE in VM_UNPAGED 2005-11-22 09:13:42 -08:00
mempolicy.c [PATCH] unpaged: VM_UNPAGED 2005-11-22 09:13:42 -08:00
mempool.c [PATCH] gfp_t: mm/* (easy parts) 2005-10-28 08:16:47 -07:00
mincore.c [PATCH] freepgt: sys_mincore ignore FIRST_USER_PGD_NR 2005-04-19 13:29:20 -07:00
mlock.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
mmap.c [PATCH] unpaged: private write VM_RESERVED 2005-11-22 09:13:42 -08:00
mprotect.c [PATCH] unpaged: private write VM_RESERVED 2005-11-22 09:13:42 -08:00
mremap.c [PATCH] mm: split page table lock 2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
msync.c [PATCH] unpaged: VM_UNPAGED 2005-11-22 09:13:42 -08:00
nommu.c [PATCH] mm/{mmap,nommu}.c: several unexports 2005-11-07 07:54:06 -08:00
oom_kill.c [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1 2005-10-08 15:00:57 -07:00
page_alloc.c [PATCH] unpaged: PG_reserved bad_page 2005-11-22 09:13:42 -08:00
page_io.c [PATCH] mm: split page table lock 2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
page-writeback.c [PATCH] re-export clear_page_dirty_for_io() 2005-11-18 07:49:45 -08:00
pdflush.c [PATCH] cpusets: confine pdflush to its cpuset 2005-10-30 17:37:21 -08:00
prio_tree.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
readahead.c [PATCH] readahead commentary 2005-11-07 07:53:37 -08:00
rmap.c [PATCH] unpaged: anon in VM_UNPAGED 2005-11-22 09:13:42 -08:00
shmem.c [PATCH] mm: split page table lock 2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
slab.c [PATCH] slab: remove alloc_pages() calls 2005-11-13 18:14:12 -08:00
sparse.c [PATCH] memory hotplug: move section_mem_map alloc to sparse.c 2005-10-29 21:40:44 -07:00
swap_state.c [PATCH] mm/swap_state.c: unexport swapper_space 2005-11-07 07:54:07 -08:00
swap.c [PATCH] unpaged: unifdefed PageCompound 2005-11-22 09:13:42 -08:00
swapfile.c [PATCH] mm/swapfile.c: unexport total_swap_pages 2005-11-07 07:54:07 -08:00
thrash.c [PATCH] swaptoken tuning 2005-10-29 21:40:35 -07:00
tiny-shmem.c [PATCH] Error checks omitted in init_tmpfs() in mm/tiny-shmem.c 2005-10-30 17:37:27 -08:00
truncate.c [PATCH] ext3: Fix unmapped buffers in transaction's lists 2005-10-30 17:37:17 -08:00
vmalloc.c [PATCH] kernel-doc: fix warnings in vmalloc.c 2005-11-07 07:53:56 -08:00
vmscan.c [PATCH] mm: __alloc_pages cleanup 2005-11-13 18:14:12 -08:00