From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com>, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Why do we let munmap fail?
Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 15:12:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aacd607f-4a0d-2b0a-d8d9-b57c686d24fc@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKOZuetOD6MkGPVvYFLj5RXh200FaDyu3sQqZviVRhTFFS3fjA@mail.gmail.com>
On 05/21/2018 03:07 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> Now let's return to max_map_count itself: what is it supposed to achieve?
> If we want to limit application kernel memory resource consumption, let's
> limit application kernel memory resource consumption, accounting for it on
> a byte basis the same way we account for other kernel objects allocated on
> behalf of userspace. Why should we have a separate cap just for the VMA
> count?
VMAs consume kernel memory and we can't reclaim them. That's what it
boils down to.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-21 22:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-21 22:07 Why do we let munmap fail? Daniel Colascione
2018-05-21 22:12 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2018-05-21 22:20 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-05-21 22:29 ` Dave Hansen
2018-05-21 22:35 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-05-21 22:48 ` Dave Hansen
2018-05-21 22:54 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-05-21 23:02 ` Dave Hansen
2018-05-21 23:16 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-05-21 23:32 ` Dave Hansen
2018-05-22 0:00 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-05-22 0:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-05-22 0:38 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-05-22 1:19 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-05-22 1:41 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-05-22 2:09 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-05-22 2:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-05-22 1:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-05-22 5:34 ` Nicholas Piggin
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