Re: [PATCH 0/4] ipc/shm.c: increase the limits for SHMMAX, SHMALL

2014-09-24 Thread Davidlohr Bueso
On Tue, 2014-09-23 at 07:24 +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > David, > > I applied various pieces from your patch on top of material > that I already had, so that now we have the text below describing > these limits. Comments/suggestions/improvements from all welcome. Looks good, thank

Re: [PATCH 0/4] ipc/shm.c: increase the limits for SHMMAX, SHMALL

2014-09-22 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On 06/03/2014 09:26 PM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > On Fri, 2014-05-02 at 15:16 +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> Hi Manfred, >> >> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Manfred Spraul >> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> the increase of SHMMAX/SHMALL is now a 4 patch series. >>> I don't have ideas ho

Re: [PATCH 0/4] ipc/shm.c: increase the limits for SHMMAX, SHMALL

2014-06-03 Thread Davidlohr Bueso
On Fri, 2014-05-02 at 15:16 +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Hi Manfred, > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Manfred Spraul > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > the increase of SHMMAX/SHMALL is now a 4 patch series. > > I don't have ideas how to improve it further. > > On the assumption that

Re: [PATCH 0/4] ipc/shm.c: increase the limits for SHMMAX, SHMALL

2014-05-07 Thread Davidlohr Bueso
On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 07:27 +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > On 05/07/2014 12:08 AM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > > On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 22:40 +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > >> Hi Davidlohr, > >> > >> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > >>> On Fri, 2014-0

Re: [PATCH 0/4] ipc/shm.c: increase the limits for SHMMAX, SHMALL

2014-05-07 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On 05/07/2014 12:08 AM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 22:40 +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> Hi Davidlohr, >> >> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: >>> On Fri, 2014-05-02 at 15:16 +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: Hi Manfred,

Re: [PATCH 0/4] ipc/shm.c: increase the limits for SHMMAX, SHMALL

2014-05-06 Thread Davidlohr Bueso
On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 22:40 +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Hi Davidlohr, > > On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > > On Fri, 2014-05-02 at 15:16 +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > >> Hi Manfred, > >> > >> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Manfred Spraul >

Re: [PATCH 0/4] ipc/shm.c: increase the limits for SHMMAX, SHMALL

2014-05-06 Thread Davidlohr Bueso
On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 13:06 -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > On Fri, 2014-05-02 at 15:16 +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > > Hi Manfred, > > > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Manfred Spraul > > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > the increase of SHMMAX/SHMALL is now a 4 patch series. > >

Re: [PATCH 0/4] ipc/shm.c: increase the limits for SHMMAX, SHMALL

2014-05-06 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Hi Davidlohr, On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > On Fri, 2014-05-02 at 15:16 +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> Hi Manfred, >> >> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Manfred Spraul >> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > the increase of SHMMAX/SHMALL is now a 4 patch serie

Re: [PATCH 0/4] ipc/shm.c: increase the limits for SHMMAX, SHMALL

2014-05-06 Thread Davidlohr Bueso
On Fri, 2014-05-02 at 15:16 +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Hi Manfred, > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Manfred Spraul > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > the increase of SHMMAX/SHMALL is now a 4 patch series. > > I don't have ideas how to improve it further. > > On the assumption that

Re: [PATCH 0/4] ipc/shm.c: increase the limits for SHMMAX, SHMALL

2014-05-02 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Hi Manfred, On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Manfred Spraul wrote: > Hi all, > > the increase of SHMMAX/SHMALL is now a 4 patch series. > I don't have ideas how to improve it further. On the assumption that your patches are heading to mainline, could you send me a man-pages patch for the changes

Re: [PATCH 0/4] ipc/shm.c: increase the limits for SHMMAX, SHMALL

2014-04-22 Thread Davidlohr Bueso
On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 06:23 +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote: > On 04/21/2014 07:25 PM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-04-21 at 16:26 +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> the increase of SHMMAX/SHMALL is now a 4 patch series. > >> I don't have ideas how to improve it further. > >

Re: [PATCH 0/4] ipc/shm.c: increase the limits for SHMMAX, SHMALL

2014-04-21 Thread Manfred Spraul
On 04/21/2014 07:25 PM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: On Mon, 2014-04-21 at 16:26 +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote: Hi all, the increase of SHMMAX/SHMALL is now a 4 patch series. I don't have ideas how to improve it further. Manfred, is there any difference between this set and the one you sent a couple o

Re: [PATCH 0/4] ipc/shm.c: increase the limits for SHMMAX, SHMALL

2014-04-21 Thread Davidlohr Bueso
On Mon, 2014-04-21 at 16:26 +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote: > Hi all, > > the increase of SHMMAX/SHMALL is now a 4 patch series. > I don't have ideas how to improve it further. Manfred, is there any difference between this set and the one you sent a couple of days ago? > > The change itself is tri

[PATCH 0/4] ipc/shm.c: increase the limits for SHMMAX, SHMALL

2014-04-21 Thread Manfred Spraul
Hi all, the increase of SHMMAX/SHMALL is now a 4 patch series. I don't have ideas how to improve it further. The change itself is trivial, the only problem are interger overflows. The overflows are not new, but if we make huge values the default, then the code should be free from overflows. SHMM

[PATCH 0/4] ipc/shm.c: increase the limits for SHMMAX, SHMALL

2014-04-19 Thread Manfred Spraul
Hi all, the increase of SHMMAX/SHMALL is now a 4 patch series, and still not ready for merging (see at the end, TASK_SIZE and s390). If we increase the default limits for SHMMAX and SHMALL, integer overflows could happen: SHMMAX: - shmmem_file_setup places a hard limit on the segment size: