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mm: warn about VmData over RLIMIT_DATA
authorKonstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Wed, 3 Feb 2016 00:57:43 +0000 (16:57 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 3 Feb 2016 16:28:43 +0000 (08:28 -0800)
commit9b0e5832e8efc5dc4aea1f093e919d94b4976ad8
tree179e5850a0567927d38e34a96747d53415b535b3
parent4e671afc5e1f367f54861e67c7461c0002879e9f
mm: warn about VmData over RLIMIT_DATA

This patch provides a way of working around a slight regression
introduced by commit 3dc3d6f5143a ("mm: rework virtual memory
accounting").

Before that commit RLIMIT_DATA have control only over size of the brk
region.  But that change have caused problems with all existing versions
of valgrind, because it set RLIMIT_DATA to zero.

This patch fixes rlimit check (limit actually in bytes, not pages) and
by default turns it into warning which prints at first VmData misuse:

  "mmap: top (795): VmData 516096 exceed data ulimit 512000.  Will be forbidden soon."

Behavior is controlled by boot param ignore_rlimit_data=y/n and by sysfs
/sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data.  For now it set to "y".

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak kernel-parameters.txt text[
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151228211015.GL2194@uranus
Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
mm/internal.h
mm/mmap.c