[PATCH] overcommit: use totalreserve_pages
This patch is an enhancement of OVERCOMMIT_GUESS algorithm in
__vm_enough_memory() in mm/mmap.c.
When the OVERCOMMIT_GUESS algorithm calculates the number of free pages,
the algorithm subtracts the number of reserved pages from the result
nr_free_pages().
Signed-off-by: Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index eab6fcb..e6ee123 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -121,14 +121,26 @@
* only call if we're about to fail.
*/
n = nr_free_pages();
+
+ /*
+ * Leave reserved pages. The pages are not for anonymous pages.
+ */
+ if (n <= totalreserve_pages)
+ goto error;
+ else
+ n -= totalreserve_pages;
+
+ /*
+ * Leave the last 3% for root
+ */
if (!cap_sys_admin)
n -= n / 32;
free += n;
if (free > pages)
return 0;
- vm_unacct_memory(pages);
- return -ENOMEM;
+
+ goto error;
}
allowed = (totalram_pages - hugetlb_total_pages())
@@ -150,7 +162,7 @@
*/
if (atomic_read(&vm_committed_space) < (long)allowed)
return 0;
-
+error:
vm_unacct_memory(pages);
return -ENOMEM;