From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>,
aswin@hp.com, "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipc/shm: Increase the defaults for SHMALL, SHMMAX to infinity
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:45:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <535237AA.7080000@colorfullife.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKgNAkgMrWhSky8Cys2gxiS_s0=ya=wi=R5ehuT0bdjEBpDgdg@mail.gmail.com>
On 04/19/2014 09:10 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2014-04-18 at 11:18 +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote:
>>> Risks:
>>> - The patch breaks installations that use "take current value and increase
>>> it a bit". [seems to exist, http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=139638334330127]
>> This really scares me. The probability of occurrence is now much higher,
>> and not just theoretical. It would legitimately break userspace.
> I'm missing something. Manfred's patch doesn't actually change the
> behavior on this point does it? If the problem is more than
> theoretical, then it _already_ affects users, right? (And they would
> therefore already be working around the problem.)
The current default is 32 MB. if some increases it by 1 MB, then the
result is 33 MB.
The new default would be ULONG_MAX. If someone increases it by 1 MB,
then the result is 1 MB - 1 byte.
--
Manfred
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From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>,
aswin@hp.com, "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipc/shm: Increase the defaults for SHMALL, SHMMAX to infinity
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:45:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <535237AA.7080000@colorfullife.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKgNAkgMrWhSky8Cys2gxiS_s0=ya=wi=R5ehuT0bdjEBpDgdg@mail.gmail.com>
On 04/19/2014 09:10 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2014-04-18 at 11:18 +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote:
>>> Risks:
>>> - The patch breaks installations that use "take current value and increase
>>> it a bit". [seems to exist, http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=139638334330127]
>> This really scares me. The probability of occurrence is now much higher,
>> and not just theoretical. It would legitimately break userspace.
> I'm missing something. Manfred's patch doesn't actually change the
> behavior on this point does it? If the problem is more than
> theoretical, then it _already_ affects users, right? (And they would
> therefore already be working around the problem.)
The current default is 32 MB. if some increases it by 1 MB, then the
result is 33 MB.
The new default would be ULONG_MAX. If someone increases it by 1 MB,
then the result is 1 MB - 1 byte.
--
Manfred
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-19 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-18 9:18 [PATCH] ipc/shm: Increase the defaults for SHMALL, SHMMAX to infinity Manfred Spraul
2014-04-18 9:18 ` Manfred Spraul
2014-04-18 14:54 ` Motohiro Kosaki
2014-04-18 14:54 ` Motohiro Kosaki
2014-04-19 6:55 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-04-19 6:55 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-04-19 7:10 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-04-19 7:10 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-04-19 8:45 ` Manfred Spraul [this message]
2014-04-19 8:45 ` Manfred Spraul
2014-04-19 9:14 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-04-19 9:14 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-04-19 8:37 ` Manfred Spraul
2014-04-19 8:37 ` Manfred Spraul
2014-04-19 9:17 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-04-19 9:17 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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