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| author | Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> | 2008-02-13 15:03:19 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2008-02-13 16:21:18 -0800 |
| commit | 064d9efe947542097be669581f82d6b097e81d1a (patch) | |
| tree | ddfc9f1c4d60135a7d7a1c5ebb7d0e85f683cfcb /mm/hugetlb.c | |
| parent | 2695a14d315c014474ccadbaed40b0169b00cb5b (diff) | |
| download | lwn-064d9efe947542097be669581f82d6b097e81d1a.tar.gz lwn-064d9efe947542097be669581f82d6b097e81d1a.zip | |
hugetlb: fix overcommit locking
proc_doulongvec_minmax() calls copy_to_user()/copy_from_user(), so we can't
hold hugetlb_lock over the call. Use a dummy variable to store the sysctl
result, like in hugetlb_sysctl_handler(), then grab the lock to update
nr_overcommit_huge_pages.
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/hugetlb.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/hugetlb.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index d9a380312467..cb1b3a7ecdfc 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -24,14 +24,15 @@ const unsigned long hugetlb_zero = 0, hugetlb_infinity = ~0UL; static unsigned long nr_huge_pages, free_huge_pages, resv_huge_pages; static unsigned long surplus_huge_pages; +static unsigned long nr_overcommit_huge_pages; unsigned long max_huge_pages; +unsigned long sysctl_overcommit_huge_pages; static struct list_head hugepage_freelists[MAX_NUMNODES]; static unsigned int nr_huge_pages_node[MAX_NUMNODES]; static unsigned int free_huge_pages_node[MAX_NUMNODES]; static unsigned int surplus_huge_pages_node[MAX_NUMNODES]; static gfp_t htlb_alloc_mask = GFP_HIGHUSER; unsigned long hugepages_treat_as_movable; -unsigned long nr_overcommit_huge_pages; static int hugetlb_next_nid; /* @@ -609,8 +610,9 @@ int hugetlb_overcommit_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *file, void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos) { - spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock); proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, file, buffer, length, ppos); + spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock); + nr_overcommit_huge_pages = sysctl_overcommit_huge_pages; spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock); return 0; } |