From 4248b0da460839e30eaaad78992b9a1dd3e63e21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 15:46:20 -0700 Subject: fs, file table: reinit files_stat.max_files after deferred memory initialisation Dave Hansen reported the following; My laptop has been behaving strangely with 4.2-rc2. Once I log in to my X session, I start getting all kinds of strange errors from applications and see this in my dmesg: VFS: file-max limit 8192 reached The problem is that the file-max is calculated before memory is fully initialised and miscalculates how much memory the kernel is using. This patch recalculates file-max after deferred memory initialisation. Note that using memory hotplug infrastructure would not have avoided this problem as the value is not recalculated after memory hot-add. 4.1: files_stat.max_files = 6582781 4.2-rc2: files_stat.max_files = 8192 4.2-rc2 patched: files_stat.max_files = 6562467 Small differences with the patch applied and 4.1 but not enough to matter. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reported-by: Dave Hansen Cc: Nicolai Stange Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Alex Ng Cc: Fengguang Wu Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/fs.h | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index cc008c338f5a..84b783f277f7 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ struct vm_fault; extern void __init inode_init(void); extern void __init inode_init_early(void); -extern void __init files_init(unsigned long); +extern void __init files_init(void); +extern void __init files_maxfiles_init(void); extern struct files_stat_struct files_stat; extern unsigned long get_max_files(void); @@ -2245,7 +2246,7 @@ extern int ioctl_preallocate(struct file *filp, void __user *argp); /* fs/dcache.c */ extern void __init vfs_caches_init_early(void); -extern void __init vfs_caches_init(unsigned long); +extern void __init vfs_caches_init(void); extern struct kmem_cache *names_cachep; -- cgit v1.2.3