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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-12-14 00:00:36 +0300 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-12-14 00:00:36 +0300 |
commit | 78a45c6f067824cf5d0a9fedea7339ac2e28603c (patch) | |
tree | b4f78c8b6b9059ddace0a18c11629b8d2045f793 /include/uapi/linux/msg.h | |
parent | f96fe225677b3efb74346ebd56fafe3997b02afa (diff) | |
parent | 29d293b6007b91a4463f05bc8d0b26e0e65c5816 (diff) | |
download | linux-78a45c6f067824cf5d0a9fedea7339ac2e28603c.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'akpm' (second patch-bomb from Andrew)
Merge second patchbomb from Andrew Morton:
- the rest of MM
- misc fs fixes
- add execveat() syscall
- new ratelimit feature for fault-injection
- decompressor updates
- ipc/ updates
- fallocate feature creep
- fsnotify cleanups
- a few other misc things
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (99 commits)
cgroups: Documentation: fix trivial typos and wrong paragraph numberings
parisc: percpu: update comments referring to __get_cpu_var
percpu: update local_ops.txt to reflect this_cpu operations
percpu: remove __get_cpu_var and __raw_get_cpu_var macros
fsnotify: remove destroy_list from fsnotify_mark
fsnotify: unify inode and mount marks handling
fallocate: create FAN_MODIFY and IN_MODIFY events
mm/cma: make kmemleak ignore CMA regions
slub: fix cpuset check in get_any_partial
slab: fix cpuset check in fallback_alloc
shmdt: use i_size_read() instead of ->i_size
ipc/shm.c: fix overly aggressive shmdt() when calls span multiple segments
ipc/msg: increase MSGMNI, remove scaling
ipc/sem.c: increase SEMMSL, SEMMNI, SEMOPM
ipc/sem.c: change memory barrier in sem_lock() to smp_rmb()
lib/decompress.c: consistency of compress formats for kernel image
decompress_bunzip2: off by one in get_next_block()
usr/Kconfig: make initrd compression algorithm selection not expert
fault-inject: add ratelimit option
ratelimit: add initialization macro
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Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/msg.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/msg.h | 28 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/msg.h b/include/uapi/linux/msg.h index a70375526578..f51c8001dbe5 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/msg.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/msg.h @@ -51,16 +51,28 @@ struct msginfo { }; /* - * Scaling factor to compute msgmni: - * the memory dedicated to msg queues (msgmni * msgmnb) should occupy - * at most 1/MSG_MEM_SCALE of the lowmem (see the formula in ipc/msg.c): - * up to 8MB : msgmni = 16 (MSGMNI) - * 4 GB : msgmni = 8K - * more than 16 GB : msgmni = 32K (IPCMNI) + * MSGMNI, MSGMAX and MSGMNB are default values which can be + * modified by sysctl. + * + * MSGMNI is the upper limit for the number of messages queues per + * namespace. + * It has been chosen to be as large possible without facilitating + * scenarios where userspace causes overflows when adjusting the limits via + * operations of the form retrieve current limit; add X; update limit". + * + * MSGMNB is the default size of a new message queue. Non-root tasks can + * decrease the size with msgctl(IPC_SET), root tasks + * (actually: CAP_SYS_RESOURCE) can both increase and decrease the queue + * size. The optimal value is application dependent. + * 16384 is used because it was always used (since 0.99.10) + * + * MAXMAX is the maximum size of an individual message, it's a global + * (per-namespace) limit that applies for all message queues. + * It's set to 1/2 of MSGMNB, to ensure that at least two messages fit into + * the queue. This is also an arbitrary choice (since 2.6.0). */ -#define MSG_MEM_SCALE 32 -#define MSGMNI 16 /* <= IPCMNI */ /* max # of msg queue identifiers */ +#define MSGMNI 32000 /* <= IPCMNI */ /* max # of msg queue identifiers */ #define MSGMAX 8192 /* <= INT_MAX */ /* max size of message (bytes) */ #define MSGMNB 16384 /* <= INT_MAX */ /* default max size of a message queue */ |