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authorAlan Cox2008-05-23 22:04:31 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds2008-05-24 18:56:09 +0200
commit80119ef5c8153e0a6cc5edf00c083dc98a9bd348 (patch)
treea2af11a3991b1bebe9d764ab6d4d28891e86eda2 /mm/nommu.c
parenttypes.h: don't expose struct ustat to userspace (diff)
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mm: fix atomic_t overflow in vm
The atomic_t type is 32bit but a 64bit system can have more than 2^32 pages of virtual address space available. Without this we overflow on ludicrously large mappings Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/nommu.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/nommu.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index ef8c62cec697..dca93fcb8b7a 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ struct page *mem_map;
unsigned long max_mapnr;
unsigned long num_physpages;
unsigned long askedalloc, realalloc;
-atomic_t vm_committed_space = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
+atomic_long_t vm_committed_space = ATOMIC_LONG_INIT(0);
int sysctl_overcommit_memory = OVERCOMMIT_GUESS; /* heuristic overcommit */
int sysctl_overcommit_ratio = 50; /* default is 50% */
int sysctl_max_map_count = DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT;
@@ -1410,7 +1410,7 @@ int __vm_enough_memory(struct mm_struct *mm, long pages, int cap_sys_admin)
* cast `allowed' as a signed long because vm_committed_space
* sometimes has a negative value
*/
- if (atomic_read(&vm_committed_space) < (long)allowed)
+ if (atomic_long_read(&vm_committed_space) < (long)allowed)
return 0;
error:
vm_unacct_memory(pages);