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    • Davidlohr Bueso's avatar
      ipc,mqueue: remove limits for the amount of system-wide queues · f3713fd9
      Davidlohr Bueso authored
      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.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
      Reported-by: default avatarMadars Vitolins <m@silodev.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
      Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
      Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[3.5+]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f3713fd9
  6. Jun 01, 2012
    • KOSAKI Motohiro's avatar
      mqueue: separate mqueue default value from maximum value · cef0184c
      KOSAKI Motohiro authored
      
      Commit b231cca4 ("message queues: increase range limits") changed
      mqueue default value when attr parameter is specified NULL from hard
      coded value to fs.mqueue.{msg,msgsize}_max sysctl value.
      
      This made large side effect.  When user need to use two mqueue
      applications 1) using !NULL attr parameter and it require big message
      size and 2) using NULL attr parameter and only need small size message,
      app (1) require to raise fs.mqueue.msgsize_max and app (2) consume large
      memory size even though it doesn't need.
      
      Doug Ledford propsed to switch back it to static hard coded value.
      However it also has a compatibility problem.  Some applications might
      started depend on the default value is tunable.
      
      The solution is to separate default value from maximum value.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarJoe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
      Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
      Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      cef0184c
    • Doug Ledford's avatar
      ipc/mqueue: cleanup definition names and locations · 93e6f119
      Doug Ledford authored
      
      Since commit b231cca4 ("message queues: increase range limits") on
      Oct 18, 2008, calls to mq_open() that did not pass in an attribute
      struct and expected to get default values for the size of the queue and
      the max message size now get the system wide maximums instead of
      hardwired defaults like they used to get.
      
      This was uncovered when one of the earlier patches in this patch set
      increased the default system wide maximums at the same time it increased
      the hard ceiling on the system wide maximums (a customer specifically
      needed the hard ceiling brought back up, the new ceiling that commit
      b231cca4 introduced was too low for their production systems).  By
      increasing the default maximums and not realising they were tied to any
      attempt to create a message queue without an attribute struct, I had
      inadvertently made it such that all message queue creation attempts
      without an attribute struct were failing because the new default
      maximums would create a queue that exceeded the default rlimit for
      message queue bytes.
      
      As a result, the system wide defaults were brought back down to their
      previous levels, and the system wide ceilings on the maximums were
      raised to meet the customer's needs.  However, the fact that the no
      attribute struct behavior of mq_open() could be broken by changing the
      system wide maximums for message queues was seen as fundamentally broken
      itself.  So we hardwired the no attribute case back like it used to be.
      But, then we realized that on the very off chance that some piece of
      software in the wild depended on that behavior, we could work around
      that issue by adding two new knobs to /proc that allowed setting the
      defaults for message queues created without an attr struct separately
      from the system wide maximums.
      
      What is not an option IMO is to leave the current behavior in place.  No
      piece of software should ever rely on setting the system wide maximums
      in order to get a desired message queue.  Such a reliance would be so
      fundamentally multitasking OS unfriendly as to not really be tolerable.
      Fortunately, we don't know of any software in the wild that uses this
      except for a regression test program that caught the issue in the first
      place.  If there is though, we have made accommodations with the two new
      /proc knobs (and that's all the accommodations such fundamentally broken
      software can be allowed)..
      
      This patch:
      
      The various defines for minimums and maximums of the sysctl controllable
      mqueue values are scattered amongst different files and named
      inconsistently.  Move them all into ipc_namespace.h and make them have
      consistent names.  Additionally, make the number of queues per namespace
      also have a minimum and maximum and use the same sysctl function as the
      other two settable variables.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarSerge 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 avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      93e6f119
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