From 9e4a5bda89034502fb144331e71a0efdfd5fae97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrea Righi Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:08:57 -0700 Subject: mm: prevent divide error for small values of vm_dirty_bytes Avoid setting less than two pages for vm_dirty_bytes: this is necessary to avoid potential division by 0 (like the following) in get_dirty_limits(). [ 49.951610] divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [ 49.952195] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/uevent [ 49.952195] CPU 1 [ 49.952195] Modules linked in: pcspkr [ 49.952195] Pid: 3064, comm: dd Not tainted 2.6.30-rc3 #1 [ 49.952195] RIP: 0010:[] [] get_dirty_limits+0xe9/0x2c0 [ 49.952195] RSP: 0018:ffff88001de03a98 EFLAGS: 00010202 [ 49.952195] RAX: 00000000000000c0 RBX: ffff88001de03b80 RCX: 28f5c28f5c28f5c3 [ 49.952195] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000000c0 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 49.952195] RBP: ffff88001de03ae8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 49.952195] R10: ffff88001ddda9a0 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000001 [ 49.952195] R13: ffff88001fbc8218 R14: ffff88001de03b70 R15: ffff88001de03b78 [ 49.952195] FS: 00007fe9a435b6f0(0000) GS:ffff8800025d9000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 49.952195] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 49.952195] CR2: 00007fe9a39ab000 CR3: 000000001de38000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 [ 49.952195] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 49.952195] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 49.952195] Process dd (pid: 3064, threadinfo ffff88001de02000, task ffff88001ddda250) [ 49.952195] Stack: [ 49.952195] ffff88001fa0de00 ffff88001f2dbd70 ffff88001f9fe800 000080b900000000 [ 49.952195] 00000000000000c0 ffff8800027a6100 0000000000000400 ffff88001fbc8218 [ 49.952195] 0000000000000000 0000000000000600 ffff88001de03bb8 ffffffff802d3ed7 [ 49.952195] Call Trace: [ 49.952195] [] balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr+0x1d7/0x3f0 [ 49.952195] [] ? ext3_writeback_write_end+0x9e/0x120 [ 49.952195] [] generic_file_buffered_write+0x12f/0x330 [ 49.952195] [] __generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x26d/0x460 [ 49.952195] [] ? generic_file_aio_write+0x52/0xd0 [ 49.952195] [] generic_file_aio_write+0x69/0xd0 [ 49.952195] [] ext3_file_write+0x26/0xc0 [ 49.952195] [] do_sync_write+0xf1/0x140 [ 49.952195] [] ? get_lock_stats+0x2a/0x60 [ 49.952195] [] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40 [ 49.952195] [] vfs_write+0xcb/0x190 [ 49.952195] [] sys_write+0x50/0x90 [ 49.952195] [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [ 49.952195] Code: 00 00 00 2b 05 09 1c 17 01 48 89 c6 49 0f af f4 48 c1 ee 02 48 89 f0 48 f7 e1 48 89 d6 31 d2 48 c1 ee 02 48 0f af 75 d0 48 89 f0 <48> f7 f7 41 8b 95 ac 01 00 00 48 89 c7 49 0f af d4 48 c1 ea 02 [ 49.952195] RIP [] get_dirty_limits+0xe9/0x2c0 [ 49.952195] RSP [ 50.096523] ---[ end trace 008d7aa02f244d7b ]--- Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 4 ++++ kernel/sysctl.c | 5 ++++- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 97c4b3284329..b716d33912d8 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -90,6 +90,10 @@ will itself start writeback. If dirty_bytes is written, dirty_ratio becomes a function of its value (dirty_bytes / the amount of dirtyable system memory). +Note: the minimum value allowed for dirty_bytes is two pages (in bytes); any +value lower than this limit will be ignored and the old configuration will be +retained. + ============================================================== dirty_expire_centisecs diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index e3d2c7dd59b9..ea78fa101ad6 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -103,6 +103,9 @@ static unsigned long one_ul = 1; static int one_hundred = 100; static int one_thousand = 1000; +/* this is needed for the proc_doulongvec_minmax of vm_dirty_bytes */ +static unsigned long dirty_bytes_min = 2 * PAGE_SIZE; + /* this is needed for the proc_dointvec_minmax for [fs_]overflow UID and GID */ static int maxolduid = 65535; static int minolduid; @@ -1006,7 +1009,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = { .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = &dirty_bytes_handler, .strategy = &sysctl_intvec, - .extra1 = &one_ul, + .extra1 = &dirty_bytes_min, }, { .procname = "dirty_writeback_centisecs", -- cgit v1.2.3