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 --- mm/page_alloc.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 322628278ae4..cb61f44eb3fc 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1201,6 +1201,9 @@ 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 */ -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b