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 dc6c9a35 ("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>
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- Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt 4 additions, 4 deletionsDocumentation/sysctl/vm.txt
- arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c 1 addition, 0 deletionsarch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
- arch/s390/include/asm/mmu_context.h 3 additions, 1 deletionarch/s390/include/asm/mmu_context.h
- arch/sparc/mm/hugetlbpage.c 1 addition, 0 deletionsarch/sparc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
- fs/proc/task_mmu.c 4 additions, 1 deletionfs/proc/task_mmu.c
- include/linux/mm.h 33 additions, 3 deletionsinclude/linux/mm.h
- include/linux/mm_types.h 3 additions, 0 deletionsinclude/linux/mm_types.h
- kernel/fork.c 4 additions, 0 deletionskernel/fork.c
- mm/debug.c 4 additions, 2 deletionsmm/debug.c
- mm/memory.c 9 additions, 6 deletionsmm/memory.c
- mm/oom_kill.c 5 additions, 3 deletionsmm/oom_kill.c
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