mm: account pmd page tables to the process
Dave noticed that unprivileged process can allocate significant amount of
memory -- >500 MiB on x86_64 -- and stay unnoticed by oom-killer and
memory cgroup.  The trick is to allocate a lot of PMD page tables.  Linux
kernel doesn't account PMD tables to the process, only PTE.
The use-cases below use few tricks to allocate a lot of PMD page tables
while keeping VmRSS and VmPTE low.  oom_score for the process will be 0.
	#include <errno.h>
	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <stdlib.h>
	#include <unistd.h>
	#include <sys/mman.h>
	#include <sys/prctl.h>
	#define PUD_SIZE (1UL << 30)
	#define PMD_SIZE (1UL << 21)
	#define NR_PUD 130000
	int main(void)
	{
		char *addr = NULL;
		unsigned long i;
		prctl(PR_SET_THP_DISABLE);
		for (i = 0; i < NR_PUD ; i++) {
			addr = mmap(addr + PUD_SIZE, PUD_SIZE, PROT_WRITE|PROT_READ,
					MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0);
			if (addr == MAP_FAILED) {
				perror("mmap");
				break;
			}
			*addr = 'x';
			munmap(addr, PMD_SIZE);
			mmap(addr, PMD_SIZE, PROT_WRITE|PROT_READ,
					MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
			if (addr == MAP_FAILED)
				perror("re-mmap"), exit(1);
		}
		printf("PID %d consumed %lu KiB in PMD page tables\n",
				getpid(), i * 4096 >> 10);
		return pause();
	}
The patch addresses the issue by account PMD tables to the process the
same way we account PTE.
The main place where PMD tables is accounted is __pmd_alloc() and
free_pmd_range(). But there're few corner cases:
 - HugeTLB can share PMD page tables. The patch handles by accounting
   the table to all processes who share it.
 - x86 PAE pre-allocates few PMD tables on fork.
 - Architectures with FIRST_USER_ADDRESS > 0. We need to adjust sanity
   check on exit(2).
Accounting only happens on configuration where PMD page table's level is
present (PMD is not folded).  As with nr_ptes we use per-mm counter.  The
counter value is used to calculate baseline for badness score by
oom-killer.
Signed-off-by:  Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by:
Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by:  Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by:
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by:  Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Tested-by:
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Tested-by:  Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by:
Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by:  Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by:  Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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