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Commit 5b5c4d1a authored by Doug Ledford's avatar Doug Ledford Committed by Linus Torvalds
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ipc/mqueue: update maximums for the mqueue subsystem



Commit b231cca4 ("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 9cf18e1d ("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: default avatarDoug 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: default avatarKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 02967ea0
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