ipc: sysv shared memory limited to 8TiB
authorRobin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Wed, 1 May 2013 02:15:54 +0000 (19:15 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 1 May 2013 15:12:58 +0000 (08:12 -0700)
commitd69f3bad4675ac519d41ca2b11e1c00ca115cecd
tree343d1fab484751290b2044b347372f8a8468e762
parent41239fe82d85c135684b09f1e65622d6c1dbe8dc
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>
include/linux/ipc_namespace.h
ipc/shm.c