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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/util.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/util.c | 41 |
1 files changed, 41 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c index 1c9d097d7e48..8d6280c05238 100644 --- a/mm/util.c +++ b/mm/util.c @@ -746,6 +746,47 @@ int overcommit_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void *buffer, return ret; } +static void sync_overcommit_as(struct work_struct *dummy) +{ + percpu_counter_sync(&vm_committed_as); +} + +int overcommit_policy_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void *buffer, + size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) +{ + struct ctl_table t; + int new_policy; + int ret; + + /* + * The deviation of sync_overcommit_as could be big with loose policy + * like OVERCOMMIT_ALWAYS/OVERCOMMIT_GUESS. When changing policy to + * strict OVERCOMMIT_NEVER, we need to reduce the deviation to comply + * with the strict "NEVER", and to avoid possible race condtion (even + * though user usually won't too frequently do the switching to policy + * OVERCOMMIT_NEVER), the switch is done in the following order: + * 1. changing the batch + * 2. sync percpu count on each CPU + * 3. switch the policy + */ + if (write) { + t = *table; + t.data = &new_policy; + ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(&t, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); + if (ret) + return ret; + + mm_compute_batch(new_policy); + if (new_policy == OVERCOMMIT_NEVER) + schedule_on_each_cpu(sync_overcommit_as); + sysctl_overcommit_memory = new_policy; + } else { + ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); + } + + return ret; +} + int overcommit_kbytes_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) { |