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| author | Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> | 2015-04-16 12:47:47 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-04-17 09:04:07 -0400 |
| commit | ac1b398de1ef94aeee8ba87b0120763526572a6e (patch) | |
| tree | 61e32dcc897d25328065dec06ccc3ab944316e9d /kernel/fork.c | |
| parent | ff691f6e03815dc8f99461ea509df863a879fc3a (diff) | |
| download | linux-ac1b398de1ef94aeee8ba87b0120763526572a6e.tar.bz2 | |
kernel/fork.c: avoid division by zero
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 32-bit calculation there is no solution which delivers valid results
for all possible combinations of the parameters. The code is only called
once. Hence a 64-bit calculation can be used as solution.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use clamp_t(), per Oleg]
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.c | 29 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 01038e6f51a8..c7f2e1a4187a 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -88,6 +88,16 @@ #include <trace/events/task.h> /* + * Minimum number of threads to boot the kernel + */ +#define MIN_THREADS 20 + +/* + * Maximum number of threads + */ +#define MAX_THREADS FUTEX_TID_MASK + +/* * Protected counters by write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock) */ unsigned long total_forks; /* Handle normal Linux uptimes. */ @@ -258,18 +268,19 @@ void __init __weak arch_task_cache_init(void) { } */ 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); + u64 threads; /* - * we need to allow at least 20 threads to boot a system + * The number of threads shall be limited such that the thread + * structures may only consume a small part of the available memory. */ - if (max_threads < 20) - max_threads = 20; + if (fls64(totalram_pages) + fls64(PAGE_SIZE) > 64) + threads = MAX_THREADS; + else + threads = div64_u64((u64) totalram_pages * (u64) PAGE_SIZE, + (u64) THREAD_SIZE * 8UL); + + max_threads = clamp_t(u64, threads, MIN_THREADS, MAX_THREADS); } void __init fork_init(void) |