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| author | Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> | 2015-08-06 15:46:20 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-08-07 04:39:40 +0300 |
| commit | 4248b0da460839e30eaaad78992b9a1dd3e63e21 (patch) | |
| tree | 795b2e5253b15d6a75a4a0dc0d8fe13b50a6060e /mm | |
| parent | d3cd131d935ab3bab700491edbbd7cad4040ce50 (diff) | |
fs, file table: reinit files_stat.max_files after deferred memory initialisation
Dave Hansen reported the following;
My laptop has been behaving strangely with 4.2-rc2. Once I log
in to my X session, I start getting all kinds of strange errors
from applications and see this in my dmesg:
VFS: file-max limit 8192 reached
The problem is that the file-max is calculated before memory is fully
initialised and miscalculates how much memory the kernel is using. This
patch recalculates file-max after deferred memory initialisation. Note
that using memory hotplug infrastructure would not have avoided this
problem as the value is not recalculated after memory hot-add.
4.1: files_stat.max_files = 6582781
4.2-rc2: files_stat.max_files = 8192
4.2-rc2 patched: files_stat.max_files = 6562467
Small differences with the patch applied and 4.1 but not enough to matter.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Alex Ng <alexng@microsoft.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 322628278ae4..cb61f44eb3fc 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1201,6 +1201,9 @@ void __init page_alloc_init_late(void) /* Block until all are initialised */ wait_for_completion(&pgdat_init_all_done_comp); + + /* Reinit limits that are based on free pages after the kernel is up */ + files_maxfiles_init(); } #endif /* CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT */ |