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authorHeinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>2015-04-16 12:47:44 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-04-17 09:04:06 -0400
commitff691f6e03815dc8f99461ea509df863a879fc3a (patch)
treeacc3b3c61ff40365d15cbe89952c743b301016af /kernel/fork.c
parent3ea7f5e25ec271909451b7dc17be37581b888de6 (diff)
kernel/fork.c: new function for max_threads
PAGE_SIZE is not guaranteed to be equal to or less than 8 times the THREAD_SIZE. E.g. architecture hexagon may have page size 1M and thread size 4096. This would lead to a division by zero in the calculation of max_threads. With this patch the buggy code is moved to a separate function set_max_threads. The error is not fixed. After fixing the problem in a separate patch the new function can be reused to adjust max_threads after adding or removing memory. Argument mempages of function fork_init() is removed as totalram_pages is an exported symbol. The creation of separate patches for refactoring to a new function and for fixing the logic was suggested by Ingo Molnar. Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c34
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index c507e29bcb01..01038e6f51a8 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -253,7 +253,26 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__put_task_struct);
void __init __weak arch_task_cache_init(void) { }
-void __init fork_init(unsigned long mempages)
+/*
+ * set_max_threads
+ */
+static void set_max_threads(void)
+{
+ /*
+ * The default maximum number of threads is set to a safe
+ * value: the thread structures can take up at most one
+ * eighth of the memory.
+ */
+ max_threads = totalram_pages / (8 * THREAD_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE);
+
+ /*
+ * we need to allow at least 20 threads to boot a system
+ */
+ if (max_threads < 20)
+ max_threads = 20;
+}
+
+void __init fork_init(void)
{
#ifndef CONFIG_ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
#ifndef ARCH_MIN_TASKALIGN
@@ -268,18 +287,7 @@ void __init fork_init(unsigned long mempages)
/* do the arch specific task caches init */
arch_task_cache_init();
- /*
- * The default maximum number of threads is set to a safe
- * value: the thread structures can take up at most one
- * eighth of the memory.
- */
- max_threads = mempages / (8 * THREAD_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE);
-
- /*
- * we need to allow at least 20 threads to boot a system
- */
- if (max_threads < 20)
- max_threads = 20;
+ set_max_threads();
init_task.signal->rlim[RLIMIT_NPROC].rlim_cur = max_threads/2;
init_task.signal->rlim[RLIMIT_NPROC].rlim_max = max_threads/2;