diff --git a/include/linux/msg.h b/include/linux/msg.h
index 6f3b8e79a991..56abf1558fdd 100644
--- a/include/linux/msg.h
+++ b/include/linux/msg.h
@@ -64,11 +64,11 @@ struct msginfo {
 #define MSGMNB 16384   /* <= INT_MAX */   /* default max size of a message queue */
 
 /* unused */
-#define MSGPOOL (MSGMNI * MSGMNB) /* size in bytes of message pool */
+#define MSGPOOL (MSGMNI * MSGMNB / 1024) /* size in kbytes of message pool */
 #define MSGTQL  MSGMNB            /* number of system message headers */
 #define MSGMAP  MSGMNB            /* number of entries in message map */
 #define MSGSSZ  16                /* message segment size */
-#define __MSGSEG (MSGPOOL / MSGSSZ) /* max no. of segments */
+#define __MSGSEG ((MSGPOOL * 1024) / MSGSSZ) /* max no. of segments */
 #define MSGSEG (__MSGSEG <= 0xffff ? __MSGSEG : 0xffff)
 
 #ifdef __KERNEL__