[tip:perfcounters/core] perf_counter: Increase mmap limit

tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
2009-05-25T03:40:52Z

Commit-ID: a3862d3f814ce7dfca9eed56ac23d29db3aee8d5
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/a3862d3f814ce7dfca9eed56ac23d29db3aee8d5
Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
AuthorDate: Sun, 24 May 2009 09:02:37 +0200
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CommitDate: Sun, 24 May 2009 09:02:37 +0200

perf_counter: Increase mmap limit

In a default 'perf top' run the tool will create a counter for
each online CPU. With enough CPUs this will eventually exhaust
the default limit.

So scale it up with the number of online CPUs.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

---
kernel/perf_counter.c | 6 ++++++
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c
index cb40625..6cdf824 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_counter.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c
@@ -1704,6 +1704,12 @@ static int perf_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)

user_extra = nr_pages + 1;
user_lock_limit = sysctl_perf_counter_mlock >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10);
+
+ /*
+ * Increase the limit linearly with more CPUs:
+ */
+ user_lock_limit *= num_online_cpus();
+
user_locked = atomic_long_read(&user->locked_vm) + user_extra;

extra = 0;