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authorKirill A. Shutemov2017-11-15 17:35:33 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds2017-11-15 18:21:04 -0800
commitb4e98d9ac775907cc53fb08fcb6776deb7694e30 (patch)
tree4a82caff5eab86a66f078622acfd68df5ac92235 /Documentation/vfio-mediated-device.txt
parent7d6c4dfa4de96d11b9d6adaf5aa5ca8c54670258 (diff)
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 dc6c9a35b66b ("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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