From 93e6f119c0ce8a1bba6e81dc8dd97d67be360844 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Doug Ledford Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 16:26:28 -0700 Subject: ipc/mqueue: cleanup definition names and locations Since commit b231cca4381e ("message queues: increase range limits") on Oct 18, 2008, calls to mq_open() that did not pass in an attribute struct and expected to get default values for the size of the queue and the max message size now get the system wide maximums instead of hardwired defaults like they used to get. This was uncovered when one of the earlier patches in this patch set increased the default system wide maximums at the same time it increased the hard ceiling on the system wide maximums (a customer specifically needed the hard ceiling brought back up, the new ceiling that commit b231cca4381e introduced was too low for their production systems). By increasing the default maximums and not realising they were tied to any attempt to create a message queue without an attribute struct, I had inadvertently made it such that all message queue creation attempts without an attribute struct were failing because the new default maximums would create a queue that exceeded the default rlimit for message queue bytes. As a result, the system wide defaults were brought back down to their previous levels, and the system wide ceilings on the maximums were raised to meet the customer's needs. However, the fact that the no attribute struct behavior of mq_open() could be broken by changing the system wide maximums for message queues was seen as fundamentally broken itself. So we hardwired the no attribute case back like it used to be. But, then we realized that on the very off chance that some piece of software in the wild depended on that behavior, we could work around that issue by adding two new knobs to /proc that allowed setting the defaults for message queues created without an attr struct separately from the system wide maximums. What is not an option IMO is to leave the current behavior in place. No piece of software should ever rely on setting the system wide maximums in order to get a desired message queue. Such a reliance would be so fundamentally multitasking OS unfriendly as to not really be tolerable. Fortunately, we don't know of any software in the wild that uses this except for a regression test program that caught the issue in the first place. If there is though, we have made accommodations with the two new /proc knobs (and that's all the accommodations such fundamentally broken software can be allowed).. This patch: The various defines for minimums and maximums of the sysctl controllable mqueue values are scattered amongst different files and named inconsistently. Move them all into ipc_namespace.h and make them have consistent names. Additionally, make the number of queues per namespace also have a minimum and maximum and use the same sysctl function as the other two settable variables. Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn Cc: Amerigo Wang Cc: Joe Korty Cc: Jiri Slaby Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Manfred Spraul Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/ipc_namespace.h | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h b/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h index 8a297a5e794c..1372b566e1e1 100644 --- a/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h +++ b/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h @@ -91,10 +91,15 @@ 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_MSGMAX 10 /* max number of messages in each queue */ #define HARD_MSGMAX (32768*sizeof(void *)/4) +#define MIN_MSGSIZEMAX 128 #define DFLT_MSGSIZEMAX 8192 /* max message size */ +#define HARD_MSGSIZEMAX (8192*128) #else static inline int mq_init_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns) { return 0; } #endif -- cgit v1.2.3