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mm: account pud page tables
authorKirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Thu, 16 Nov 2017 01:35:33 +0000 (17:35 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Thu, 16 Nov 2017 02:21:04 +0000 (18:21 -0800)
commitb4e98d9ac775907cc53fb08fcb6776deb7694e30
tree4a82caff5eab86a66f078622acfd68df5ac92235
parent7d6c4dfa4de96d11b9d6adaf5aa5ca8c54670258
mm: account pud page tables

On a machine with 5-level paging support a process can allocate
significant amount of memory and stay unnoticed by oom-killer and memory
cgroup.  The trick is to allocate a lot of PUD page tables.  We don't
account PUD page tables, only PMD and PTE.

We already addressed the same issue for PMD page tables, see commit
dc6c9a35b66b ("mm: account pmd page tables to the process").
Introduction of 5-level paging brings the same issue for PUD page
tables.

The patch expands accounting to PUD level.

[[email protected]: s/pmd_t/pud_t/]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
[[email protected]: s390/mm: fix pud table accounting]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
arch/s390/include/asm/mmu_context.h
arch/sparc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
fs/proc/task_mmu.c
include/linux/mm.h
include/linux/mm_types.h
kernel/fork.c
mm/debug.c
mm/memory.c
mm/oom_kill.c
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