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| author | Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> | 2008-02-13 15:03:19 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2008-02-13 16:21:18 -0800 |
| commit | 064d9efe947542097be669581f82d6b097e81d1a (patch) | |
| tree | ddfc9f1c4d60135a7d7a1c5ebb7d0e85f683cfcb /include/asm-x86/mach-bigsmp | |
| parent | 2695a14d315c014474ccadbaed40b0169b00cb5b (diff) | |
hugetlb: fix overcommit locking
proc_doulongvec_minmax() calls copy_to_user()/copy_from_user(), so we can't
hold hugetlb_lock over the call. Use a dummy variable to store the sysctl
result, like in hugetlb_sysctl_handler(), then grab the lock to update
nr_overcommit_huge_pages.
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-x86/mach-bigsmp')
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