[PATCH] mm/hugetlb: sanity check gigantic hugepage count

James Yang James.Yang at freescale.com
Sat Nov 15 05:32:24 AEDT 2014


Limit the number of gigantic hugepages specified by the
hugepages= parameter to MAX_NUMBER_GPAGES.

Signed-off-by: James Yang <James.Yang at freescale.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
index d67db4b..5ef84a2 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -362,6 +362,13 @@ static int __init do_gpage_early_setup(char *param, char *val,
 		if (size != 0) {
 			if (sscanf(val, "%lu", &npages) <= 0)
 				npages = 0;
+			if (npages > MAX_NUMBER_GPAGES) {
+				pr_warn("MMU: %lu pages requested for page "
+					"size %llu KB, limiting to "
+					__stringify(MAX_NUMBER_GPAGES) "\n",
+					npages, size / 1024);
+				npages = MAX_NUMBER_GPAGES;
+			}
 			gpage_npages[shift_to_mmu_psize(__ffs(size))] = npages;
 			size = 0;
 		}
-- 
1.7.0.4



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