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Subject[bug] mm: hugepages can cause negative commitlimit
If the total size of hugepages allocated on a system is
over half of the total memory size, commitlimit becomes
a negative number.

What happens in fs/proc/meminfo.c is this calculation:

allowed = ((totalram_pages - hugetlb_total_pages())
* sysctl_overcommit_ratio / 100) + total_swap_pages;

The problem is that hugetlb_total_pages() is larger than
totalram_pages resulting in a negative number. Since
allowed is an unsigned long the negative shows up as a
big number.

A similar calculation occurs in __vm_enough_memory() in mm/mmap.c.

A symptom of this problem is that /proc/meminfo prints a
very large CommitLimit number.

CommitLimit: 737869762947802600 kB

To reproduce the problem reserve over half of memory as hugepages.
For example "default_hugepagesz=1G hugepagesz=1G hugepages=64
Then look at /proc/meminfo .

uv1-sys:~ # cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 32395508 kB
MemFree: 32029276 kB
Buffers: 8656 kB
Cached: 89548 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 55336 kB
Inactive: 73916 kB
Active(anon): 31220 kB
Inactive(anon): 36 kB
Active(file): 24116 kB
Inactive(file): 73880 kB
Unevictable: 0 kB
Mlocked: 0 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB
Dirty: 1692 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 31132 kB
Mapped: 15668 kB
Shmem: 152 kB
Slab: 70256 kB
SReclaimable: 17148 kB
SUnreclaim: 53108 kB
KernelStack: 6536 kB
PageTables: 3704 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
WritebackTmp: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 737869762947802600 kB
Committed_AS: 394044 kB
VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed: 713960 kB
VmallocChunk: 34325764204 kB
HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB
HugePages_Total: 32
HugePages_Free: 32
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
HugePages_Surp: 0
Hugepagesize: 1048576 kB
DirectMap4k: 16384 kB
DirectMap2M: 2064384 kB
DirectMap1G: 65011712 kB


--
Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead
SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc rja@sgi.com


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