Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757672AbaDVUT3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2014 16:19:29 -0400 Received: from fujitsu24.fnanic.fujitsu.com ([192.240.6.14]:43523 "EHLO fujitsu24.fnanic.fujitsu.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757120AbaDVUT0 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2014 16:19:26 -0400 From: Motohiro Kosaki To: Manfred Spraul , Davidlohr Bueso , Michael Kerrisk , "Martin Schwidefsky" CC: LKML , Andrew Morton , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Motohiro Kosaki JP , "gthelen@google.com" , "aswin@hp.com" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 13:17:15 -0700 Subject: RE: [PATCH 4/4] ipc/shm.c: Increase the defaults for SHMALL, SHMMAX. Thread-Topic: [PATCH 4/4] ipc/shm.c: Increase the defaults for SHMALL, SHMMAX. Thread-Index: Ac9dbnUTvQMbe/7bTAyv8Lpx+hrP8AA+VU4g Message-ID: <6B2BA408B38BA1478B473C31C3D2074E30989E9D84@SV-EXCHANGE1.Corp.FC.LOCAL> References: <1398090397-2397-1-git-send-email-manfred@colorfullife.com> <1398090397-2397-2-git-send-email-manfred@colorfullife.com> <1398090397-2397-3-git-send-email-manfred@colorfullife.com> <1398090397-2397-4-git-send-email-manfred@colorfullife.com> <1398090397-2397-5-git-send-email-manfred@colorfullife.com> In-Reply-To: <1398090397-2397-5-git-send-email-manfred@colorfullife.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.11.96,1.0.14,0.0.0000 definitions=2014-04-22_07:2014-04-22,2014-04-22,1970-01-01 signatures=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > -----Original Message----- > From: Manfred Spraul [mailto:manfred@colorfullife.com] > Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 10:27 AM > To: Davidlohr Bueso; Michael Kerrisk; Martin Schwidefsky > Cc: LKML; Andrew Morton; KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki; Motohiro Kosaki JP; gthelen@google.com; aswin@hp.com; linux-mm@kvack.org; > Manfred Spraul > Subject: [PATCH 4/4] ipc/shm.c: Increase the defaults for SHMALL, SHMMAX. > > System V shared memory > > a) can be abused to trigger out-of-memory conditions and the standard > measures against out-of-memory do not work: > > - it is not possible to use setrlimit to limit the size of shm segments. > > - segments can exist without association with any processes, thus > the oom-killer is unable to free that memory. > > b) is typically used for shared information - today often multiple GB. > (e.g. database shared buffers) > > The current default is a maximum segment size of 32 MB and a maximum total size of 8 GB. This is often too much for a) and not > enough for b), which means that lots of users must change the defaults. > > This patch increases the default limits (nearly) to the maximum, which is perfect for case b). The defaults are used after boot and as > the initial value for each new namespace. > > Admins/distros that need a protection against a) should reduce the limits and/or enable shm_rmid_forced. > > Further notes: > - The patch only changes default, overrides behave as before: > # sysctl kernel.shmall=33554432 > would recreate the previous limit for SHMMAX (for the current namespace). > > - Disabling sysv shm allocation is possible with: > # sysctl kernel.shmall=0 > (not a new feature, also per-namespace) > > - The limits are intentionally set to a value slightly less than ULONG_MAX, > to avoid triggering overflows in user space apps. > [not unreasonable, see http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=139638334330127] > > Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul > Reported-by: Davidlohr Bueso > Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/