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-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/msg.h28
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/sem.h18
2 files changed, 35 insertions, 11 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 */
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/sem.h b/include/uapi/linux/sem.h
index 541fce03b50c..dd73b908b2f3 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/sem.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/sem.h
@@ -63,10 +63,22 @@ struct seminfo {
int semaem;
};
-#define SEMMNI 128 /* <= IPCMNI max # of semaphore identifiers */
-#define SEMMSL 250 /* <= 8 000 max num of semaphores per id */
+/*
+ * SEMMNI, SEMMSL and SEMMNS are default values which can be
+ * modified by sysctl.
+ * The values has been chosen to be larger than necessary for any
+ * known configuration.
+ *
+ * SEMOPM should not be increased beyond 1000, otherwise there is the
+ * risk that semop()/semtimedop() fails due to kernel memory fragmentation when
+ * allocating the sop array.
+ */
+
+
+#define SEMMNI 32000 /* <= IPCMNI max # of semaphore identifiers */
+#define SEMMSL 32000 /* <= INT_MAX max num of semaphores per id */
#define SEMMNS (SEMMNI*SEMMSL) /* <= INT_MAX max # of semaphores in system */
-#define SEMOPM 32 /* <= 1 000 max num of ops per semop call */
+#define SEMOPM 500 /* <= 1 000 max num of ops per semop call */
#define SEMVMX 32767 /* <= 32767 semaphore maximum value */
#define SEMAEM SEMVMX /* adjust on exit max value */