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perf: Better fit max unprivileged mlock pages for tools needs
authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:29:39 +0000 (19:29 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thu, 14 Apr 2011 23:53:17 +0000 (16:53 -0700)
commit518014080d07601facfde5abadf9972f2c2c10cc
treea9963f932245052c7a154bd8776bbdf8cc193834
parent06ac5c43d8bc08b4a480062dfd9ee80b6da13d2e
perf: Better fit max unprivileged mlock pages for tools needs

commit 880f57318450dbead6a03f9e31a1468924d6dd88 upstream.

The maximum kilobytes of locked memory that an unprivileged user
can reserve is of 512 kB = 128 pages by default, scaled to the
number of onlined CPUs, which fits well with the tools that use
128 data pages by default.

However tools actually use 129 pages, because they need one more
for the user control page. Thus the default mlock threshold is
not sufficient for the default tools needs and we always end up
to evaluate the constant mlock rlimit policy, which doesn't have
this scaling with the number of online CPUs.

Hence, on systems that have more than 16 CPUs, we overlap the
rlimit threshold and fail to mmap:

$ perf record ls
Error: failed to mmap with 1 (Operation not permitted)

Just increase the max unprivileged mlock threshold by one page
so that it supports well perf tools even after 16 CPUs.

Reported-by: Han Pingtian <phan@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <1300904979-5508-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
kernel/perf_event.c