From 3eefae994d9224fb7771a3ddb683868363c23510 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Rostedt Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 21:21:04 +0200 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- mm/page-writeback.c | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c') diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 789b6adbef3..b38f700825f 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -126,8 +126,6 @@ static void background_writeout(unsigned long _min_pages); static struct prop_descriptor vm_completions; static struct prop_descriptor vm_dirties; -static unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(void); - /* * couple the period to the dirty_ratio: * @@ -347,7 +345,13 @@ static unsigned long highmem_dirtyable_memory(unsigned long total) #endif } -static unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(void) +/** + * determine_dirtyable_memory - amount of memory that may be used + * + * Returns the numebr of pages that can currently be freed and used + * by the kernel for direct mappings. + */ +unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(void) { unsigned long x; -- cgit v1.2.3