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author | Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> | 2015-12-29 14:54:32 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-12-29 17:45:49 -0800 |
commit | 6cdb18ad98a49f7e9b95d538a0614cde827404b8 (patch) | |
tree | fb698abbb79de2d8b90d1042517bd08ba375c988 /mm/vmstat.c | |
parent | cc28d6d80f6ab494b10f0e2ec949eacd610f66e3 (diff) | |
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mm/vmstat: fix overflow in mod_zone_page_state()
mod_zone_page_state() takes a "delta" integer argument. delta contains
the number of pages that should be added or subtracted from a struct
zone's vm_stat field.
If a zone is larger than 8TB this will cause overflows. E.g. for a
zone with a size slightly larger than 8TB the line
mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ALLOC_BATCH, zone->managed_pages);
in mm/page_alloc.c:free_area_init_core() will result in a negative
result for the NR_ALLOC_BATCH entry within the zone's vm_stat, since 8TB
contain 0x8xxxxxxx pages which will be sign extended to a negative
value.
Fix this by changing the delta argument to long type.
This could fix an early boot problem seen on s390, where we have a 9TB
system with only one node. ZONE_DMA contains 2GB and ZONE_NORMAL the
rest. The system is trying to allocate a GFP_DMA page but ZONE_DMA is
completely empty, so it tries to reclaim pages in an endless loop.
This was seen on a heavily patched 3.10 kernel. One possible
explaination seem to be the overflows caused by mod_zone_page_state().
Unfortunately I did not have the chance to verify that this patch
actually fixes the problem, since I don't have access to the system
right now. However the overflow problem does exist anyway.
Given the description that a system with slightly less than 8TB does
work, this seems to be a candidate for the observed problem.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmstat.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/vmstat.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c index 0d5712b0206c..4ebc17d948cb 100644 --- a/mm/vmstat.c +++ b/mm/vmstat.c @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ void set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pg_data_t *pgdat, * particular counter cannot be updated from interrupt context. */ void __mod_zone_page_state(struct zone *zone, enum zone_stat_item item, - int delta) + long delta) { struct per_cpu_pageset __percpu *pcp = zone->pageset; s8 __percpu *p = pcp->vm_stat_diff + item; @@ -318,8 +318,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__dec_zone_page_state); * 1 Overstepping half of threshold * -1 Overstepping minus half of threshold */ -static inline void mod_state(struct zone *zone, - enum zone_stat_item item, int delta, int overstep_mode) +static inline void mod_state(struct zone *zone, enum zone_stat_item item, + long delta, int overstep_mode) { struct per_cpu_pageset __percpu *pcp = zone->pageset; s8 __percpu *p = pcp->vm_stat_diff + item; @@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ static inline void mod_state(struct zone *zone, } void mod_zone_page_state(struct zone *zone, enum zone_stat_item item, - int delta) + long delta) { mod_state(zone, item, delta, 0); } @@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dec_zone_page_state); * Use interrupt disable to serialize counter updates */ void mod_zone_page_state(struct zone *zone, enum zone_stat_item item, - int delta) + long delta) { unsigned long flags; |