[PATCH] overcommit: use totalreserve_pages for nommu
authorHideo AOKI <haoki@redhat.com>
Tue, 11 Apr 2006 05:53:01 +0000 (22:53 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:18:32 +0000 (06:18 -0700)
This patch is an enhancement of OVERCOMMIT_GUESS algorithm in
__vm_enough_memory() in mm/nommu.c.

When the OVERCOMMIT_GUESS algorithm calculates the number of free pages,
the algorithm subtracts the number of reserved pages from the result
nr_free_pages().

Signed-off-by: Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
mm/nommu.c

index db45efac17cc218e390dd4a8b6d8366219c546a3..029fadac0fb5d1d6f89f5ddbd216ccb4004e5804 100644 (file)
@@ -1147,14 +1147,26 @@ int __vm_enough_memory(long pages, int cap_sys_admin)
                 * only call if we're about to fail.
                 */
                n = nr_free_pages();
+
+               /*
+                * Leave reserved pages. The pages are not for anonymous pages.
+                */
+               if (n <= totalreserve_pages)
+                       goto error;
+               else
+                       n -= totalreserve_pages;
+
+               /*
+                * Leave the last 3% for root
+                */
                if (!cap_sys_admin)
                        n -= n / 32;
                free += n;
 
                if (free > pages)
                        return 0;
-               vm_unacct_memory(pages);
-               return -ENOMEM;
+
+               goto error;
        }
 
        allowed = totalram_pages * sysctl_overcommit_ratio / 100;
@@ -1175,7 +1187,7 @@ int __vm_enough_memory(long pages, int cap_sys_admin)
         */
        if (atomic_read(&vm_committed_space) < (long)allowed)
                return 0;
-
+error:
        vm_unacct_memory(pages);
 
        return -ENOMEM;