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>
diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c
index 7f9d407..ad17e05 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 __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);
-
- /*
- * One file with associated inode and dcache is very roughly 1K.
- * Per default don't use more than 10% of our memory for files.
- */
-
- 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);
+}
+
+/*
+ * 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;
+
+ files_stat.max_files = max_t(unsigned long, n, NR_FILE);
}