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author | Vaishali Thakkar <vaishali.thakkar@oracle.com> | 2016-02-17 13:11:26 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-02-18 16:23:24 -0800 |
commit | f8b74815a452ff2904b5d7fcce1a5ae2a4d7ca5e (patch) | |
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parent | 457a98b0809fa6cde7aab8c314a59d99772b445e (diff) | |
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mm/hugetlb.c: fix incorrect proc nr_hugepages value
Currently incorrect default hugepage pool size is reported by proc
nr_hugepages when number of pages for the default huge page size is
specified twice.
When multiple huge page sizes are supported, /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
indicates the current number of pre-allocated huge pages of the default
size. Basically /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages displays default_hstate->
max_huge_pages and after boot time pre-allocation, max_huge_pages should
equal the number of pre-allocated pages (nr_hugepages).
Test case:
Note that this is specific to x86 architecture.
Boot the kernel with command line option 'default_hugepagesz=1G
hugepages=X hugepagesz=2M hugepages=Y hugepagesz=1G hugepages=Z'. After
boot, 'cat /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages' and 'sysctl -a | grep hugepages'
returns the value X. However, dmesg output shows that Z huge pages were
pre-allocated.
So, the root cause of the problem here is that the global variable
default_hstate_max_huge_pages is set if a default huge page size is
specified (directly or indirectly) on the command line. After the command
line processing in hugetlb_init, if default_hstate_max_huge_pages is set,
the value is assigned to default_hstae.max_huge_pages. However,
default_hstate.max_huge_pages may have already been set based on the
number of pre-allocated huge pages of default_hstate size.
The solution to this problem is if hstate->max_huge_pages is already set
then it should not set as a result of global max_huge_pages value.
Basically if the value of the variable hugepages is set multiple times on
a command line for a specific supported hugepagesize then proc layer
should consider the last specified value.
Signed-off-by: Vaishali Thakkar <vaishali.thakkar@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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