linux/kernel
Jerome Marchand 49f0ce5f92 mm: add overcommit_kbytes sysctl variable
Some applications that run on HPC clusters are designed around the
availability of RAM and the overcommit ratio is fine tuned to get the
maximum usage of memory without swapping.  With growing memory, the
1%-of-all-RAM grain provided by overcommit_ratio has become too coarse
for these workload (on a 2TB machine it represents no less than 20GB).

This patch adds the new overcommit_kbytes sysctl variable that allow a
much finer grain.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix nommu build]
Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-21 16:19:44 -08:00
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cpu sched/preempt: Fix up missed PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED folding 2014-01-13 17:38:55 +01:00
debug kdb: Add support for external NMI handler to call KGDB/KDB 2013-10-03 18:47:54 +02:00
events Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core 2014-01-16 09:33:30 +01:00
gcov gcov: reuse kbasename helper 2013-11-13 12:09:34 +09:00
irq Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-12-02 10:15:39 -08:00
locking Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-01-20 10:42:08 -08:00
power PM / sleep: Fix memory leak in pm_vt_switch_unregister(). 2013-12-22 00:56:35 +01:00
printk printk.c: comments should refer to /proc/vmcore instead of /proc/vmcoreinfo 2013-11-13 12:09:14 +09:00
rcu Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-01-20 10:25:12 -08:00
sched sched: Fix __sched_setscheduler() nice test 2014-01-16 18:07:08 +01:00
time Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-01-20 11:34:26 -08:00
trace sched/clock, x86: Use a static_key for sched_clock_stable 2014-01-13 15:13:13 +01:00
.gitignore Ignore generated file kernel/x509_certificate_list 2013-12-10 18:21:34 +00:00
acct.c fs: Fix hang with BSD accounting on frozen filesystem 2013-05-04 14:57:58 -04:00
async.c
audit_tree.c fsnotify: remove pointless NULL initializers 2014-01-21 16:19:41 -08:00
audit_watch.c fsnotify: remove pointless NULL initializers 2014-01-21 16:19:41 -08:00
audit.c Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit 2013-11-21 19:18:14 -08:00
audit.h audit: call audit_bprm() only once to add AUDIT_EXECVE information 2013-11-05 11:15:03 -05:00
auditfilter.c audit: do not reject all AUDIT_INODE filter types 2013-11-05 11:09:16 -05:00
auditsc.c audit: fix type of sessionid in audit_set_loginuid() 2013-11-06 11:47:24 -05:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c mm: do not allocate page->ptl dynamically, if spinlock_t fits to long 2013-12-20 12:25:45 -08:00
capability.c xfs: update for v3.12-rc1 2013-09-09 11:19:09 -07:00
cgroup_freezer.c cgroup: make css_for_each_descendant() and friends include the origin css in the iteration 2013-08-08 20:11:27 -04:00
cgroup.c cgroup: don't recycle cgroup id until all csses' have been destroyed 2013-12-17 08:11:52 -05:00
compat.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2013-05-01 07:21:43 -07:00
configs.c proc: Supply PDE attribute setting accessor functions 2013-05-01 17:29:18 -04:00
context_tracking.c context_tracking: Wrap static key check into more intuitive function name 2013-12-02 20:43:14 +01:00
cpu_pm.c
cpu.c Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-11-14 16:55:11 +09:00
cpuset.c cpuset: Fix memory allocator deadlock 2013-11-27 13:52:47 -05:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c
delayacct.c kernel/delayacct.c: remove redundant checking in __delayacct_add_tsk() 2013-11-13 12:09:12 +09:00
dma.c
elfcore.c switch elf_core_write_extra_phdrs() to dump_emit() 2013-11-09 00:16:23 -05:00
exec_domain.c
exit.c ptrace: revert "Prepare to fix racy accesses on task breakpoints" 2013-07-09 10:33:26 -07:00
extable.c kernel/extable: fix address-checks for core_kernel and init areas 2013-11-28 09:49:41 -08:00
fork.c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-01-20 10:42:08 -08:00
freezer.c libata, freezer: avoid block device removal while system is frozen 2013-12-19 13:50:32 -05:00
futex_compat.c
futex.c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-01-20 10:42:08 -08:00
groups.c userns: Kill nsown_capable it makes the wrong thing easy 2013-08-30 23:44:11 -07:00
hrtimer.c sched/deadline: Add SCHED_DEADLINE structures & implementation 2014-01-13 13:41:06 +01:00
hung_task.c Here are the 3.13 KVM changes. There was a lot of work on the PPC 2013-11-15 13:51:36 +09:00
irq_work.c
itimer.c
jump_label.c static_key: WARN on usage before jump_label_init was called 2013-10-19 19:45:35 -04:00
kallsyms.c
kcmp.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz kernel: remove CONFIG_USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS 2013-11-15 09:32:22 +09:00
Kconfig.locks locking: Fix copy/paste errors of "ARCH_INLINE_*_UNLOCK_BH" 2013-05-28 08:50:00 +02:00
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c kexec: migrate to reboot cpu 2013-12-18 19:04:50 -08:00
kmod.c kernel/kmod.c: check for NULL in call_usermodehelper_exec() 2013-09-30 14:31:02 -07:00
kprobes.c kprobes: use KSYM_NAME_LEN to size identifier buffers 2013-11-13 12:09:26 +09:00
ksysfs.c kernel: replace strict_strto*() with kstrto*() 2013-09-12 15:38:03 -07:00
kthread.c kthread: make kthread_create() killable 2013-11-13 12:08:59 +09:00
latencytop.c
Makefile KEYS: Remove files generated when SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING=y 2013-12-13 15:59:11 +00:00
module_signing.c keys: change asymmetric keys to use common hash definitions 2013-10-25 17:15:18 -04:00
module-internal.h KEYS: Separate the kernel signature checking keyring from module signing 2013-09-25 17:17:01 +01:00
module.c Mainly boring here, too. rmmod --wait finally removed, though. 2013-11-15 13:27:50 +09:00
notifier.c
nsproxy.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2013-09-07 14:35:32 -07:00
padata.c padata: make the sequence counter an atomic_t 2013-10-30 12:02:58 +08:00
panic.c panic: Make panic_timeout configurable 2013-11-26 12:12:26 +01:00
params.c kernel/params: fix handling of signed integer types 2013-09-28 12:35:52 -07:00
pid_namespace.c pid_namespace: make freeing struct pid_namespace rcu-delayed 2013-10-24 23:43:29 -04:00
pid.c pidns: fix free_pid() to handle the first fork failure 2013-09-30 14:31:03 -07:00
posix-cpu-timers.c posix-timers: Convert abuses of BUG_ON to WARN_ON 2013-12-09 16:56:29 +01:00
posix-timers.c
profile.c kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files 2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
ptrace.c exec/ptrace: fix get_dumpable() incorrect tests 2013-11-13 12:09:33 +09:00
range.c range: Do not add new blank slot with add_range_with_merge 2013-06-18 11:32:10 -05:00
reboot.c kexec: migrate to reboot cpu 2013-12-18 19:04:50 -08:00
relay.c kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files 2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
res_counter.c memcg: reduce function dereference 2013-09-12 15:38:02 -07:00
resource.c kernel/resource.c: remove the unneeded assignment in function __find_resource 2013-07-03 16:08:06 -07:00
seccomp.c
signal.c constify copy_siginfo_to_user{,32}() 2013-11-09 00:16:29 -05:00
smp.c kernel: fix generic_exec_single indentation 2013-11-15 09:32:22 +09:00
smpboot.c kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files 2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
smpboot.h
softirq.c Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-01-20 11:34:26 -08:00
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c stop_machine: Fix race between stop_two_cpus() and stop_cpus() 2013-11-11 12:43:38 +01:00
sys_ni.c unify compat fanotify_mark(2), switch to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE 2013-05-09 13:46:38 -04:00
sys.c kernel/sys.c: remove obsolete #include <linux/kexec.h> 2013-11-13 12:09:13 +09:00
sysctl_binary.c kernel/sysctl_binary.c: use scnprintf() instead of snprintf() 2013-11-13 12:09:33 +09:00
sysctl.c mm: add overcommit_kbytes sysctl variable 2014-01-21 16:19:44 -08:00
system_certificates.S KEYS: correct alignment of system_certificate_list content in assembly file 2013-12-10 18:25:28 +00:00
system_keyring.c KEYS: correct alignment of system_certificate_list content in assembly file 2013-12-10 18:25:28 +00:00
task_work.c task_work: documentation 2013-09-11 15:58:27 -07:00
taskstats.c genetlink: only pass array to genl_register_family_with_ops() 2013-11-19 16:39:05 -05:00
test_kprobes.c kernel/: rename random32() to prandom_u32() 2013-04-29 18:28:42 -07:00
time.c sched: Rename sched.c as sched/core.c in comments and Documentation 2013-06-19 12:58:42 +02:00
timeconst.bc
timer.c timer: Convert kmalloc_node(...GFP_ZERO...) to kzalloc_node(...) 2013-11-19 14:59:50 +01:00
tracepoint.c Tracing updates for Linux 3.10 2013-04-29 13:55:38 -07:00
tsacct.c
uid16.c userns: Kill nsown_capable it makes the wrong thing easy 2013-08-30 23:44:11 -07:00
up.c kernel: provide a __smp_call_function_single stub for !CONFIG_SMP 2013-11-15 09:32:22 +09:00
user_namespace.c KEYS: Add per-user_namespace registers for persistent per-UID kerberos caches 2013-09-24 10:35:19 +01:00
user-return-notifier.c
user.c KEYS: fix uninitialized persistent_keyring_register_sem 2013-12-13 15:59:11 +00:00
utsname_sysctl.c
utsname.c userns: Kill nsown_capable it makes the wrong thing easy 2013-08-30 23:44:11 -07:00
watchdog.c watchdog: update watchdog_thresh properly 2013-09-24 17:00:25 -07:00
workqueue_internal.h sched: Rename sched.c as sched/core.c in comments and Documentation 2013-06-19 12:58:42 +02:00
workqueue.c PCI updates for v3.13: 2013-12-15 11:45:27 -08:00