alistair23-linux/include/uapi/linux/msg.h
Manfred Spraul 0050ee059f ipc/msg: increase MSGMNI, remove scaling
SysV can be abused to allocate locked kernel memory.  For most systems, a
small limit doesn't make sense, see the discussion with regards to SHMMAX.

Therefore: increase MSGMNI to the maximum supported.

And: If we ignore the risk of locking too much memory, then an automatic
scaling of MSGMNI doesn't make sense.  Therefore the logic can be removed.

The code preserves auto_msgmni to avoid breaking any user space applications
that expect that the value exists.

Notes:
1) If an administrator must limit the memory allocations, then he can set
MSGMNI as necessary.

Or he can disable sysv entirely (as e.g. done by Android).

2) MSGMAX and MSGMNB are intentionally not increased, as these values are used
to control latency vs. throughput:
If MSGMNB is large, then msgsnd() just returns and more messages can be queued
before a task switch to a task that calls msgrcv() is forced.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-13 12:42:52 -08:00

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#ifndef _UAPI_LINUX_MSG_H
#define _UAPI_LINUX_MSG_H
#include <linux/ipc.h>
/* ipcs ctl commands */
#define MSG_STAT 11
#define MSG_INFO 12
/* msgrcv options */
#define MSG_NOERROR 010000 /* no error if message is too big */
#define MSG_EXCEPT 020000 /* recv any msg except of specified type.*/
#define MSG_COPY 040000 /* copy (not remove) all queue messages */
/* Obsolete, used only for backwards compatibility and libc5 compiles */
struct msqid_ds {
struct ipc_perm msg_perm;
struct msg *msg_first; /* first message on queue,unused */
struct msg *msg_last; /* last message in queue,unused */
__kernel_time_t msg_stime; /* last msgsnd time */
__kernel_time_t msg_rtime; /* last msgrcv time */
__kernel_time_t msg_ctime; /* last change time */
unsigned long msg_lcbytes; /* Reuse junk fields for 32 bit */
unsigned long msg_lqbytes; /* ditto */
unsigned short msg_cbytes; /* current number of bytes on queue */
unsigned short msg_qnum; /* number of messages in queue */
unsigned short msg_qbytes; /* max number of bytes on queue */
__kernel_ipc_pid_t msg_lspid; /* pid of last msgsnd */
__kernel_ipc_pid_t msg_lrpid; /* last receive pid */
};
/* Include the definition of msqid64_ds */
#include <asm/msgbuf.h>
/* message buffer for msgsnd and msgrcv calls */
struct msgbuf {
__kernel_long_t mtype; /* type of message */
char mtext[1]; /* message text */
};
/* buffer for msgctl calls IPC_INFO, MSG_INFO */
struct msginfo {
int msgpool;
int msgmap;
int msgmax;
int msgmnb;
int msgmni;
int msgssz;
int msgtql;
unsigned short msgseg;
};
/*
* MSGMNI, MSGMAX and MSGMNB are default values which can be
* modified by sysctl.
*
* MSGMNI is the upper limit for the number of messages queues per
* namespace.
* It has been chosen to be as large possible without facilitating
* scenarios where userspace causes overflows when adjusting the limits via
* operations of the form retrieve current limit; add X; update limit".
*
* MSGMNB is the default size of a new message queue. Non-root tasks can
* decrease the size with msgctl(IPC_SET), root tasks
* (actually: CAP_SYS_RESOURCE) can both increase and decrease the queue
* size. The optimal value is application dependent.
* 16384 is used because it was always used (since 0.99.10)
*
* MAXMAX is the maximum size of an individual message, it's a global
* (per-namespace) limit that applies for all message queues.
* It's set to 1/2 of MSGMNB, to ensure that at least two messages fit into
* the queue. This is also an arbitrary choice (since 2.6.0).
*/
#define MSGMNI 32000 /* <= IPCMNI */ /* max # of msg queue identifiers */
#define MSGMAX 8192 /* <= INT_MAX */ /* max size of message (bytes) */
#define MSGMNB 16384 /* <= INT_MAX */ /* default max size of a message queue */
/* unused */
#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 * 1024) / MSGSSZ) /* max no. of segments */
#define MSGSEG (__MSGSEG <= 0xffff ? __MSGSEG : 0xffff)
#endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_MSG_H */