From def5efe0376501ef7bd6b53ed061512c142e59aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Rientjes Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 14:58:47 -0800 Subject: mm, madvise: fail with ENOMEM when splitting vma will hit max_map_count If madvise(2) advice will result in the underlying vma being split and the number of areas mapped by the process will exceed /proc/sys/vm/max_map_count as a result, return ENOMEM instead of EAGAIN. EAGAIN is returned by madvise(2) when a kernel resource, such as slab, is temporarily unavailable. It indicates that userspace should retry the advice in the near future. This is important for advice such as MADV_DONTNEED which is often used by malloc implementations to free memory back to the system: we really do want to free memory back when madvise(2) returns EAGAIN because slab allocations (for vmas, anon_vmas, or mempolicies) cannot be allocated. Encountering /proc/sys/vm/max_map_count is not a temporary failure, however, so return ENOMEM to indicate this is a more serious issue. A followup patch to the man page will specify this behavior. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1701241431120.42507@chino.kir.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jerome Marchand Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Michael Kerrisk Cc: Anshuman Khandual Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/mmap.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/mmap.c') diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index 1cec28d20583..499b988b1639 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -2499,11 +2499,11 @@ detach_vmas_to_be_unmapped(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, } /* - * __split_vma() bypasses sysctl_max_map_count checking. We use this on the - * munmap path where it doesn't make sense to fail. + * __split_vma() bypasses sysctl_max_map_count checking. We use this where it + * has already been checked or doesn't make sense to fail. */ -static int __split_vma(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, - unsigned long addr, int new_below) +int __split_vma(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, + unsigned long addr, int new_below) { struct vm_area_struct *new; int err; -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522