linux/mm
Heiko Carstens 6cdb18ad98 mm/vmstat: fix overflow in mod_zone_page_state()
mod_zone_page_state() takes a "delta" integer argument.  delta contains
the number of pages that should be added or subtracted from a struct
zone's vm_stat field.

If a zone is larger than 8TB this will cause overflows.  E.g.  for a
zone with a size slightly larger than 8TB the line

    mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ALLOC_BATCH, zone->managed_pages);

in mm/page_alloc.c:free_area_init_core() will result in a negative
result for the NR_ALLOC_BATCH entry within the zone's vm_stat, since 8TB
contain 0x8xxxxxxx pages which will be sign extended to a negative
value.

Fix this by changing the delta argument to long type.

This could fix an early boot problem seen on s390, where we have a 9TB
system with only one node.  ZONE_DMA contains 2GB and ZONE_NORMAL the
rest.  The system is trying to allocate a GFP_DMA page but ZONE_DMA is
completely empty, so it tries to reclaim pages in an endless loop.

This was seen on a heavily patched 3.10 kernel.  One possible
explaination seem to be the overflows caused by mod_zone_page_state().
Unfortunately I did not have the chance to verify that this patch
actually fixes the problem, since I don't have access to the system
right now.  However the overflow problem does exist anyway.

Given the description that a system with slightly less than 8TB does
work, this seems to be a candidate for the observed problem.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-12-29 17:45:49 -08:00
..
kasan kasan: fix kmemleak false-positive in kasan_module_alloc() 2015-11-20 16:17:32 -08:00
backing-dev.c mm, vmstat: allow WQ concurrency to discover memory reclaim doesn't make any progress 2015-12-12 10:15:34 -08:00
balloon_compaction.c mm: page migration trylock newpage at same level as oldpage 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
bootmem.c bootmem: avoid freeing to bootmem after bootmem is done 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
cleancache.c cleancache: remove limit on the number of cleancache enabled filesystems 2015-04-14 16:49:03 -07:00
cma_debug.c mm/cma_debug: correct size input to bitmap function 2015-07-17 16:39:54 -07:00
cma.c mm/cma.c: suppress warning 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
cma.h mm: cma: mark cma_bitmap_maxno() inline in header 2015-08-14 15:56:32 -07:00
compaction.c mm, compaction: distinguish contended status in tracepoints 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
debug-pagealloc.c mm/debug-pagealloc: make debug-pagealloc boottime configurable 2014-12-13 12:42:48 -08:00
debug.c mm: make compound_head() robust 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
dmapool.c mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
early_ioremap.c mm/early_ioremap: use offset_in_page macro 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
fadvise.c writeback: implement and use inode_congested() 2015-06-02 08:33:35 -06:00
failslab.c mm, page_alloc: rename __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
filemap.c mm, fs: introduce mapping_gfp_constraint() 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
frame_vector.c mm: fix docbook comment for get_vaddr_frames() 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
frontswap.c frontswap: allow multiple backends 2015-06-24 17:49:45 -07:00
gup.c mm: introduce VM_LOCKONFAULT 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
highmem.c mm/highmem: make kmap cache coloring aware 2014-08-06 18:01:22 -07:00
huge_memory.c mm: loosen MADV_NOHUGEPAGE to enable Qemu postcopy on s390 2015-11-20 16:17:32 -08:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c mm: make compound_head() robust 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
hugetlb.c mm/hugetlb.c: fix resv map memory leak for placeholder entries 2015-12-12 10:15:34 -08:00
hwpoison-inject.c hwpoison: use page_cgroup_ino for filtering by memcg 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
init-mm.c
internal.h mm: use 'unsigned int' for page order 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
interval_tree.c mm: replace vma->sharead.linear with vma->shared 2015-02-10 14:30:31 -08:00
Kconfig mm: make compound_head() robust 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
Kconfig.debug mm/debug_pagealloc: remove obsolete Kconfig options 2015-01-08 15:10:52 -08:00
kmemcheck.c mm/slab_common: move kmem_cache definition to internal header 2014-10-09 22:25:50 -04:00
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c mm/kmemleak.c: remove unneeded initialization of object to NULL 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
ksm.c ksm: unstable_tree_search_insert error checking cleanup 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
list_lru.c memcg: simplify and inline __mem_cgroup_from_kmem 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
maccess.c mm/maccess.c: actually return -EFAULT from strncpy_from_unsafe 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
madvise.c mm: madvise allow remove operation for hugetlbfs 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
Makefile media updates for v4.3-rc1 2015-09-11 16:42:39 -07:00
memblock.c mm/memblock: make memblock_remove_range() static 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
memcontrol.c mm: memcontrol: fix possible memcg leak due to interrupted reclaim 2015-12-29 17:45:49 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c mm/memory_hotplug.c: check for missing sections in test_pages_in_a_zone() 2015-12-29 17:45:49 -08:00
memory-failure.c mm: make compound_head() robust 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
memory.c mm, dax: fix DAX deadlocks (COW fault) 2015-11-18 16:54:36 -08:00
mempolicy.c mm: rename alloc_pages_exact_node() to __alloc_pages_node() 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
mempool.c mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
memtest.c memtest: remove unused header files 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
migrate.c mm, page_alloc: rename __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
mincore.c mm/mincore: use offset_in_page macro 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
mlock.c mm: mlock: add mlock flags to enable VM_LOCKONFAULT usage 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
mm_init.c mm: meminit: remove mminit_verify_page_links 2015-06-30 19:44:56 -07:00
mmap.c mm: introduce VM_LOCKONFAULT 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
mmu_context.c
mmu_notifier.c mmu-notifier: add clear_young callback 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
mmzone.c mm: microoptimize zonelist operations 2015-02-11 17:06:02 -08:00
mprotect.c userfaultfd: teach vma_merge to merge across vma->vm_userfaultfd_ctx 2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
mremap.c mm/mremap: use offset_in_page macro 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
msync.c mm/msync: use offset_in_page macro 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
nobootmem.c mm: page_alloc: pass PFN to __free_pages_bootmem 2015-06-30 19:44:55 -07:00
nommu.c mm/nommu.c: drop unlikely inside BUG_ON() 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
oom_kill.c mm/oom_kill.c: avoid attempting to kill init sharing same memory 2015-12-12 10:15:34 -08:00
page_alloc.c mm: fix swapped Movable and Reclaimable in /proc/pagetypeinfo 2015-12-12 10:15:34 -08:00
page_counter.c mm: page_counter: let page_counter_try_charge() return bool 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
page_ext.c mm: introduce idle page tracking 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
page_idle.c mm: introduce idle page tracking 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
page_io.c fs: use helper bio_add_page() instead of open coding on bi_io_vec 2015-08-13 12:32:00 -06:00
page_isolation.c mm, page_isolation: make set/unset_migratetype_isolate() file-local 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
page_owner.c mm/page_owner: set correct gfp_mask on page_owner 2015-07-17 16:39:54 -07:00
page-writeback.c treewide: Remove old email address 2015-11-23 09:44:58 +01:00
pagewalk.c mm/pagewalk.c: prevent positive return value of walk_page_test() from being passed to callers 2015-03-25 16:20:30 -07:00
percpu-km.c percpu: implmeent pcpu_nr_empty_pop_pages and chunk->nr_populated 2014-09-02 14:46:05 -04:00
percpu-vm.c percpu: move region iterations out of pcpu_[de]populate_chunk() 2014-09-02 14:46:02 -04:00
percpu.c mm/percpu: use offset_in_page macro 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
pgtable-generic.c mm,thp: introduce flush_pmd_tlb_range 2015-10-17 17:48:20 +05:30
process_vm_access.c process_vm_access: switch to {compat_,}import_iovec() 2015-04-11 22:27:12 -04:00
quicklist.c
readahead.c mm, fs: introduce mapping_gfp_constraint() 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
rmap.c mm: page migration use migration entry for swapcache too 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
shmem.c tmpfs: fix shmem_evict_inode() warnings on i_blocks 2015-12-12 10:15:34 -08:00
slab_common.c slab/slub: adjust kmem_cache_alloc_bulk API 2015-11-22 11:58:44 -08:00
slab.c slab/slub: adjust kmem_cache_alloc_bulk API 2015-11-22 11:58:44 -08:00
slab.h slab/slub: adjust kmem_cache_alloc_bulk API 2015-11-22 11:58:44 -08:00
slob.c slab/slub: adjust kmem_cache_alloc_bulk API 2015-11-22 11:58:44 -08:00
slub.c slab/slub: adjust kmem_cache_alloc_bulk API 2015-11-22 11:58:44 -08:00
sparse-vmemmap.c
sparse.c
swap_cgroup.c mm: page_cgroup: rename file to mm/swap_cgroup.c 2014-12-10 17:41:09 -08:00
swap_state.c mm: swap: zswap: maybe_preload & refactoring 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
swap.c mm: make compound_head() robust 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
swapfile.c mm: /proc/pid/smaps:: show proportional swap share of the mapping 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
truncate.c memcg: add per cgroup dirty page accounting 2015-06-02 08:33:33 -06:00
userfaultfd.c userfaultfd: avoid mmap_sem read recursion in mcopy_atomic 2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
util.c mm/util: use offset_in_page macro 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
vmacache.c mm/vmacache: inline vmacache_valid_mm() 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
vmalloc.c mm: vmalloc: don't remove inexistent guard hole in remove_vm_area() 2015-11-20 16:17:32 -08:00
vmpressure.c mm/vmpressure.c: fix race in vmpressure_work_fn() 2014-12-02 17:32:07 -08:00
vmscan.c mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
vmstat.c mm/vmstat: fix overflow in mod_zone_page_state() 2015-12-29 17:45:49 -08:00
workingset.c list_lru: add helpers to isolate items 2015-02-12 18:54:10 -08:00
zbud.c mm: zsmalloc: constify struct zs_pool name 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
zpool.c mm: zsmalloc: constify struct zs_pool name 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
zsmalloc.c zsmalloc: use page->private instead of page->first_page 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
zswap.c mm/zswap: change incorrect strncmp use to strcmp 2015-12-18 14:25:40 -08:00