linux/mm
Steven Rostedt 3eefae994d ftrace: limit trace entries
Currently there is no protection from the root user to use up all of
memory for trace buffers. If the root user allocates too many entries,
the OOM killer might start kill off all tasks.

This patch adds an algorith to check the following condition:

 pages_requested > (freeable_memory + current_trace_buffer_pages) / 4

If the above is met then the allocation fails. The above prevents more
than 1/4th of freeable memory from being used by trace buffers.

To determine the freeable_memory, I made determine_dirtyable_memory in
mm/page-writeback.c global.

Special thanks goes to Peter Zijlstra for suggesting the above calculation.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 22:05:14 +02:00
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allocpercpu.c cpumask: Cleanup more uses of CPU_MASK and NODE_MASK 2008-04-19 19:44:58 +02:00
backing-dev.c mm: bdi: fix race in bdi_class device creation 2008-05-20 13:31:53 -07:00
bootmem.c memory hotplug: make alloc_bootmem_section() 2008-04-28 08:58:25 -07:00
bounce.c
dmapool.c dmapool: enable debugging for CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON too 2008-04-28 08:58:20 -07:00
fadvise.c xip: support non-struct page backed memory 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
filemap.c mm: fix infinite loop in filemap_fault 2008-05-14 19:11:13 -07:00
filemap_xip.c xip: support non-struct page backed memory 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
fremap.c
highmem.c
hugetlb.c page allocator: explicitly retry hugepage allocations 2008-04-29 08:05:58 -07:00
internal.h memory hotplug: free memmaps allocated by bootmem 2008-04-28 08:58:26 -07:00
Kconfig PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED and separate page flags for Head and Tail 2008-04-28 08:58:22 -07:00
maccess.c kgdb: fix optional arch functions and probe_kernel_* 2008-04-17 20:05:39 +02:00
madvise.c xip: support non-struct page backed memory 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
Makefile uaccess: add probe_kernel_write() 2008-04-17 20:05:36 +02:00
memcontrol.c memcg: simple stats for memory resource controller 2008-05-01 08:04:02 -07:00
memory.c fix SMP data race in pagetable setup vs walking 2008-05-14 10:05:18 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c memory_hotplug: always initialize pageblock bitmap 2008-05-14 19:11:15 -07:00
mempolicy.c mempolicy: use struct mempolicy pointer in shmem_sb_info 2008-04-28 08:58:25 -07:00
mempool.c
migrate.c mm: fix warning on memory offline 2008-04-30 08:29:55 -07:00
mincore.c mm: remove nopage 2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
mlock.c
mmap.c procfs task exe symlink 2008-04-29 08:06:17 -07:00
mmzone.c mm: filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask 2008-04-28 08:58:19 -07:00
mprotect.c mprotect: prevent alteration of the PAT bits 2008-05-14 19:11:15 -07:00
mremap.c
msync.c
nommu.c procfs task exe symlink 2008-04-29 08:06:17 -07:00
oom_kill.c oom_kill: remove unused parameter in badness() 2008-04-28 08:58:26 -07:00
page-writeback.c ftrace: limit trace entries 2008-05-23 22:05:14 +02:00
page_alloc.c memory_hotplug: always initialize pageblock bitmap 2008-05-14 19:11:15 -07:00
page_io.c
page_isolation.c
pagewalk.c mm: fix possible off-by-one in walk_pte_range() 2008-04-28 08:58:16 -07:00
pdflush.c mm/pdflush.c: merge the same code in two path 2008-05-13 08:02:24 -07:00
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c
readahead.c mm: bdi: export BDI attributes in sysfs 2008-04-30 08:29:49 -07:00
rmap.c mm: remove nopage 2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
shmem.c mm: bdi: add separate writeback accounting capability 2008-04-30 08:29:50 -07:00
shmem_acl.c
slab.c mm: remove remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences 2008-04-30 08:29:53 -07:00
slob.c slob: fix bug - when slob allocates "struct kmem_cache", it does not force alignment. 2008-04-27 18:25:51 +03:00
slub.c slub: fix atomic usage in any_slab_objects() 2008-05-08 10:46:56 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c NULL noise: fs/*, mm/*, kernel/* 2008-03-30 14:18:41 -07:00
sparse.c revert "memory hotplug: allocate usemap on the section with pgdat" 2008-04-30 08:29:55 -07:00
swap.c mm: rotate_reclaimable_page() cleanup 2008-04-28 08:58:20 -07:00
swap_state.c mm: bdi: add separate writeback accounting capability 2008-04-30 08:29:50 -07:00
swapfile.c mm: use non-racy method for /proc/swaps creation 2008-04-29 08:06:20 -07:00
thrash.c
tiny-shmem.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2008-03-25 08:57:47 -07:00
truncate.c fix invalidate_inode_pages2_range() to not clear ret 2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
util.c
vmalloc.c docbook: fix vmalloc missing parameter notation 2008-05-01 08:03:59 -07:00
vmscan.c mm: remove remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences 2008-04-30 08:29:53 -07:00
vmstat.c make vmstat cpu-unplug safe 2008-05-13 08:02:23 -07:00