On Sun, 09 Feb 2014 13:06:03 -0800 Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@xxxxxx> wrote: > From: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@xxxxxx> > > Commit 93e6f119 (ipc/mqueue: cleanup definition names and locations) added > global hardcoded limits to the amount of message queues that can be created. > While these limits are per-namespace, reality is that it ends up breaking > userspace applications. Historically users have, at least in theory, been able > to create up to INT_MAX queues, and limiting it to just 1024 is way too low > and dramatic for some workloads and use cases. For instance, Madars reports: > > "This update imposes bad limits on our multi-process application. As our > app uses approaches that each process opens its own set of queues (usually > something about 3-5 queues per process). In some scenarios we might run up > to 3000 processes or more (which of-course for linux is not a problem). > Thus we might need up to 9000 queues or more. All processes run under one > user." > > Other affected users can be found in launchpad bug #1155695: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/manpages/+bug/1155695 > > Instead of increasing this limit, revert it entirely and fallback to the > original way of dealing queue limits -- where once a user's resource limit > is reached, and all memory is used, new queues cannot be created. > > --- a/ipc/mq_sysctl.c > +++ b/ipc/mq_sysctl.c > @@ -22,6 +22,16 @@ static void *get_mq(ctl_table *table) > return which; > } > > +static int proc_mq_dointvec(ctl_table *table, int write, > + void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) > +{ > + struct ctl_table mq_table; > + memcpy(&mq_table, table, sizeof(mq_table)); > + mq_table.data = get_mq(table); > + > + return proc_dointvec(&mq_table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); > +} > + > static int proc_mq_dointvec_minmax(ctl_table *table, int write, > void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) > { > > ... > > @@ -51,9 +59,7 @@ static ctl_table mq_sysctls[] = { > .data = &init_ipc_ns.mq_queues_max, > .maxlen = sizeof(int), > .mode = 0644, > - .proc_handler = proc_mq_dointvec_minmax, > - .extra1 = &msg_queues_limit_min, > - .extra2 = &msg_queues_limit_max, > + .proc_handler = proc_mq_dointvec, > }, hm, afaict proc_mq_dointvec() isn't needed - proc_dointvec_minmax() will do the right thing if ->extra1 and/or ->extra2 are NULL, so we can still use proc_mq_dointvec_minmax(). Which has absolutely nothing at all to do with your patch, but makes me think we could take a sharp instrument to the sysctl code... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html