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mm: account pud page tables
authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Thu, 16 Nov 2017 01:35:33 +0000 (17:35 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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.

[kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com: s/pmd_t/pud_t/]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171004074305.x35eh5u7ybbt5kar@black.fi.intel.com
[heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com: s390/mm: fix pud table accounting]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171103090551.18231-1-heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171002080427.3320-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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