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Robin Holt d69f3bad46 ipc: sysv shared memory limited to 8TiB

Trying to run an application which was trying to put data into half of
memory using shmget(), we found that having a shmall value below 8EiB-8TiB
would prevent us from using anything more than 8TiB.  By setting
kernel.shmall greater than 8EiB-8TiB would make the job work.

In the newseg() function, ns->shm_tot which, at 8TiB is INT_MAX.

ipc/shm.c:
 458 static int newseg(struct ipc_namespace *ns, struct ipc_params *params)
 459 {
...
 465         int numpages = (size + PAGE_SIZE -1) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
...
 474         if (ns->shm_tot + numpages > ns->shm_ctlall)
 475                 return -ENOSPC;

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make ipc/shm.c:newseg()'s numpages size_t, not int]
Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Reported-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2013-05-01 08:12:58 -07:00

compat_mq.c

ipc: initialize structure memory to zero for compat functions

2010-10-27 18:03:13 -07:00

compat.c

get rid of union semop in sys_semctl(2) arguments

2013-03-05 15:14:16 -05:00

ipc_sysctl.c

ipc: add sysctl to specify desired next object id

2013-01-04 16:11:45 -08:00

ipcns_notifier.c

ipc: do not use a negative value to re-enable msgmni automatic recomputing