alloc_surplus_huge_page increases the pool size and the number of
surplus pages opportunistically to prevent from races with the pool size
change.  See commit d1c3fb1f ("hugetlb: introduce
nr_overcommit_hugepages sysctl") for more details.

The resulting code is unnecessarily hairy, cause code duplication and
doesn't allow to share the allocation paths.  Moreover pool size changes
tend to be very seldom so optimizing for them is not really reasonable.
Simplify the code and allow to allocate a fresh surplus page as long as
we are under the overcommit limit and then recheck the condition after
the allocation and drop the new page if the situation has changed.  This
should provide a reasonable guarantee that an abrupt allocation requests
will not go way off the limit.

If we consider races with the pool shrinking and enlarging then we
should be reasonably safe as well.  In the first case we are off by one
in the worst case and the second case should work OK because the page is
not yet visible.  We can waste CPU cycles for the allocation but that
should be acceptable for a relatively rare condition.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180103093213.26329-5-mhocko@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Andrea Reale <ar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Zi Yan <zi.yan@cs.rutgers.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>