kernel_optimize_test/Documentation/vm
David Rientjes def5efe037 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 <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24 17:46:55 -08:00
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active_mm.txt
balance
cleancache.txt
frontswap.txt
highmem.txt
hugetlbpage.txt
hwpoison.txt
idle_page_tracking.txt
ksm.txt mm, madvise: fail with ENOMEM when splitting vma will hit max_map_count 2017-02-24 17:46:55 -08:00
numa
numa_memory_policy.txt
overcommit-accounting
page_frags mm: add documentation for page fragment APIs 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
page_migration
page_owner.txt
pagemap.txt
remap_file_pages.txt
slub.txt
soft-dirty.txt
split_page_table_lock
transhuge.txt Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-02-22 19:29:24 -08:00
unevictable-lru.txt
userfaultfd.txt userfaultfd: documentation update 2017-02-24 17:46:55 -08:00
z3fold.txt
zsmalloc.txt
zswap.txt