On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 08:54:11AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> 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
>
> Could this be from CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT=y? files_init()
> seems top be sizing files_stat.max_files from memory sizes.
>
Yep.
I'm very sick at the moment and running a temperature so this needs double
checking. Medication is helping but I'm nowhere near 100%.
Andrew mentioned nr_free_buffer_pages and nr_free_pagecache_pages.
They are both live calculation that walks through zonelists with return
values based on zone->managed_pages. They are not affected by deferred
memory initialisation which leaves managed_pages alone.
AFAICS, the key problem is to watch for initialisations that are based on
free memory. It appears that only file_table.c cares and the calculation
of limits can be done after deferred memory initialisation like this;
---8<---
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 <mgor...@suse.de>
---
fs/dcache.c | 13 +++----------
fs/file_table.c | 24 +++++++++++++++---------
include/linux/fs.h | 5 +++--
init/main.c | 2 +-
mm/page_alloc.c | 3 +++
5 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 5c8ea15e73a5..9b5fe503f6cb 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -3442,22 +3442,15 @@ void __init vfs_caches_init_early(void)
inode_init_early();
}
-void __init vfs_caches_init(unsigned long mempages)
+void __init vfs_caches_init(void)
{
- unsigned long reserve;
-
- /* Base hash sizes on available memory, with a reserve equal to
- 150% of current kernel size */
-
- reserve = min((mempages - nr_free_pages()) * 3/2, mempages - 1);
- mempages -= reserve;
-
names_cachep = kmem_cache_create("names_cache", PATH_MAX, 0,
SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC, NULL);
dcache_init();
inode_init();
- files_init(mempages);
+ files_init();
+ files_maxfiles_init();
mnt_init();
bdev_cache_init();
chrdev_init();
diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c
index 7f9d407c7595..ad17e05ebf95 100644
--- a/fs/file_table.c
+++ b/fs/file_table.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
#include <linux/hardirq.h>
#include <linux/task_work.h>
#include <linux/ima.h>
+#include <linux/swap.h>
#include <linux/atomic.h>
@@ -308,19 +309,24 @@ void put_filp(struct file *file)
}
}
-void __init files_init(unsigned long mempages)
+void __init files_init(void)
{
- unsigned long n;
-
filp_cachep = kmem_cache_create("filp", sizeof(struct file), 0,
SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | SLAB_PANIC, NULL);
+ percpu_counter_init(&nr_files, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
+}
- /*
- * One file with associated inode and dcache is very roughly 1K.
- * Per default don't use more than 10% of our memory for files.
- */
+/*
+ * One file with associated inode and dcache is very roughly 1K. Per default
+ * do not use more than 10% of our memory for files.
+ */
+void __init files_maxfiles_init(void)
+{
+ unsigned long n;
+ unsigned long memreserve = (totalram_pages - nr_free_pages()) * 3/2;
+
+ memreserve = min(memreserve, totalram_pages - 1);
+ n = ((totalram_pages - memreserve) * (PAGE_SIZE / 1024)) / 10;
- n = (mempages * (PAGE_SIZE / 1024)) / 10;
files_stat.max_files = max_t(unsigned long, n, NR_FILE);
- percpu_counter_init(&nr_files, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
}
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index a0653e560c26..e6ceaae3a50e 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ struct vm_fault;
extern void __init inode_init(void);
extern void __init inode_init_early(void);
-extern void __init files_init(unsigned long);
+extern void __init files_init(void);
+extern void __init files_maxfiles_init(void);
extern struct files_stat_struct files_stat;
extern unsigned long get_max_files(void);
@@ -2235,7 +2236,7 @@ extern int ioctl_preallocate(struct file *filp, void
__user *argp);
/* fs/dcache.c */
extern void __init vfs_caches_init_early(void);
-extern void __init vfs_caches_init(unsigned long);
+extern void __init vfs_caches_init(void);
extern struct kmem_cache *names_cachep;
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index c5d5626289ce..56506553d4d8 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -656,7 +656,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init start_kernel(void)
key_init();
security_init();
dbg_late_init();
- vfs_caches_init(totalram_pages);
+ vfs_caches_init();
signals_init();
/* rootfs populating might need page-writeback */
page_writeback_init();
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index a69e78c396a0..94e2599830c2 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1203,6 +1203,9 @@ 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 */
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