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authorDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>2012-05-31 16:26:30 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-05-31 17:49:30 -0700
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ipc/mqueue: update maximums for the mqueue subsystem
Commit b231cca4381e ("message queues: increase range limits") changed the maximum size of a message in a message queue from INT_MAX to 8192*128. Unfortunately, we had customers that relied on a size much larger than 8192*128 on their production systems. After reviewing POSIX, we found that it is silent on the maximum message size. We did find a couple other areas in which it was not silent. Fix up the mqueue maximums so that the customer's system can continue to work, and document both the POSIX and real world requirements in ipc_namespace.h so that we don't have this issue crop back up. Also, commit 9cf18e1dd74cd0 ("ipc: HARD_MSGMAX should be higher not lower on 64bit") fiddled with HARD_MSGMAX without realizing that the number was intentionally in place to limit the msg queue depth to one that was small enough to kmalloc an array of pointers (hence why we divided 128k by sizeof(long)). If we wish to meet POSIX requirements, we have no choice but to change our allocation to a vmalloc instead (at least for the large queue size case). With that, it's possible to increase our allowed maximum to the POSIX requirements (or more if we choose). [sfr@canb.auug.org.au: using vmalloc requires including vmalloc.h] Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/ipc_namespace.h47
1 files changed, 35 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h b/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h
index bde094ee7b0e..6e1dd08194fd 100644
--- a/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h
+++ b/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h
@@ -90,18 +90,41 @@ static inline void shm_destroy_orphaned(struct ipc_namespace *ns) {}
#ifdef CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE
extern int mq_init_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns);
-/* default values */
-#define MIN_QUEUESMAX 1
-#define DFLT_QUEUESMAX 256 /* max number of message queues */
-#define HARD_QUEUESMAX 1024
-#define MIN_MSGMAX 1
-#define DFLT_MSG 10U
-#define DFLT_MSGMAX 10 /* max number of messages in each queue */
-#define HARD_MSGMAX (32768*sizeof(void *)/4)
-#define MIN_MSGSIZEMAX 128
-#define DFLT_MSGSIZE 8192U
-#define DFLT_MSGSIZEMAX 8192 /* max message size */
-#define HARD_MSGSIZEMAX (8192*128)
+/*
+ * POSIX Message Queue default values:
+ *
+ * MIN_*: Lowest value an admin can set the maximum unprivileged limit to
+ * DFLT_*MAX: Default values for the maximum unprivileged limits
+ * DFLT_{MSG,MSGSIZE}: Default values used when the user doesn't supply
+ * an attribute to the open call and the queue must be created
+ * HARD_*: Highest value the maximums can be set to. These are enforced
+ * on CAP_SYS_RESOURCE apps as well making them inviolate (so make them
+ * suitably high)
+ *
+ * POSIX Requirements:
+ * Per app minimum openable message queues - 8. This does not map well
+ * to the fact that we limit the number of queues on a per namespace
+ * basis instead of a per app basis. So, make the default high enough
+ * that no given app should have a hard time opening 8 queues.
+ * Minimum maximum for HARD_MSGMAX - 32767. I bumped this to 65536.
+ * Minimum maximum for HARD_MSGSIZEMAX - POSIX is silent on this. However,
+ * we have run into a situation where running applications in the wild
+ * require this to be at least 5MB, and preferably 10MB, so I set the
+ * value to 16MB in hopes that this user is the worst of the bunch and
+ * the new maximum will handle anyone else. I may have to revisit this
+ * in the future.
+ */
+#define MIN_QUEUESMAX 1
+#define DFLT_QUEUESMAX 256
+#define HARD_QUEUESMAX 1024
+#define MIN_MSGMAX 1
+#define DFLT_MSG 64U
+#define DFLT_MSGMAX 1024
+#define HARD_MSGMAX 65536
+#define MIN_MSGSIZEMAX 128
+#define DFLT_MSGSIZE 8192U
+#define DFLT_MSGSIZEMAX (1024*1024)
+#define HARD_MSGSIZEMAX (16*1024*1024)
#else
static inline int mq_init_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns) { return 0; }
#endif