From 4248b0da460839e30eaaad78992b9a1dd3e63e21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 15:46:20 -0700 Subject: 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 Reported-by: Dave Hansen Cc: Nicolai Stange Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Alex Ng Cc: Fengguang Wu Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/file_table.c | 24 +++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/file_table.c') 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 #include #include +#include #include @@ -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); } -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b