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memblock: fix memblock_estimated_nr_free_pages() for soft-reserved memory
authorAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Tue, 11 Nov 2025 01:00:10 +0000 (10:00 +0900)
committerMike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:15:35 +0000 (18:15 +0200)
commitc42af83c59b65d01c0f7a074e450bbbb43b22f0d
tree29cdcbf4deda6ac9bf7c7c6ed5bcbb01269e4c60
parente9a6fb0bcdd7609be6969112f3fbfcce3b1d4a7c
memblock: fix memblock_estimated_nr_free_pages() for soft-reserved memory

memblock_estimated_nr_free_pages() returns the difference between the total
size of the "memory" memblock type and the "reserved" memblock type.

The "soft-reserved" memory regions are added to the "reserved" memblock
type, but not to the "memory" memblock type. Therefore,
memblock_estimated_nr_free_pages() may return a smaller value than
expected, or if it underflows, an extremely large value.

/proc/sys/kernel/threads-max is determined by the value of
memblock_estimated_nr_free_pages().  This issue was discovered on machines
with CXL memory because kernel.threads-max was either smaller than expected
or extremely large for the installed DRAM size.

This fixes the issue by replacing memblock_reserved_size() with
memblock_reserved_kern_size() that tells how much memory was
reserved from the actual RAM.

Suggested-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251111010010.7800-1-akinobu.mita@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
mm/memblock.c