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    mm: replace hardcoded 3% with admin_reserve_pages knob · 4eeab4f5
    Andrew Shewmaker authored
    Add an admin_reserve_kbytes knob to allow admins to change the hardcoded
    memory reserve to something other than 3%, which may be multiple
    gigabytes on large memory systems.  Only about 8MB is necessary to
    enable recovery in the default mode, and only a few hundred MB are
    required even when overcommit is disabled.
    
    This affects OVERCOMMIT_GUESS and OVERCOMMIT_NEVER.
    
    admin_reserve_kbytes is initialized to min(3% free pages, 8MB)
    
    I arrived at 8MB by summing the RSS of sshd or login, bash, and top.
    
    Please see first patch in this series for full background, motivation,
    testing, and full changelog.
    
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make init_admin_reserve() static]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Shewmaker <agshew@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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